differences for tax policies between free and controlled migration, and the role of productivity gap …

planner who has partial knowledge of population preferences and the productivity of spending. This is a problem of decision … making under ambiguity. Focusing on income-tax financed public spending for infrastructure that aims to enhance productivity … preferences and the productivity of public spending …

, over several years, of public highway capital which then temporarily boosts private sector productivity and local demand …

We examine the productivity of public infrastructure in a general equilibrium context. In our model, infrastructure … monopoly power influences public capital's productivity effect. We test the model using state-level panel data. We confirm the … potentially important indirect channels by which public capital affects manufacturing productivity …

the recent literature on productivity growth. The size of this impact has important implications for policymakers …' decisions to invest in public capital, and productivity analysts' evaluation of productivity growth fluctuations and declines …' costs and productivity growth. We find that infrastructure investment does provide a significant direct benefit to …

productivity performance of twelve two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries. A general framework is developed to measure … contribution of demand, relative input prices, technical change, as well as publicly financed capital on total factor productivity … and R&D capital contribute to productivity growth. However, the magnitudes of their contribution vary considerably across …

restructuring process and that this is associated with the tight financial-market conditions that follow. This productivity cost of …

The effect of unionization on productivity is examined in this paper using time-series data on selected establishments … light on the question of how unionization affects productivity. The empirical results support the conclusion that … the gain in productivity derives from a series of extensive changes in management personnel and procedure. These …