increase the demand for skills in financial jobs. Computers and information technology play a more limited role. Our analysis …We use detailed information about wages, education and occupations to shed light on the evolution of the U.S. financial …

We estimate the volatility of plant-level idiosyncratic shocks in the U.S. manufacturing sector. Our measure of … volatility is the variation in Revenue Total Factor Productivity which is not explained by either industry- or economy …

This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in … Japanese manufacturing for the years 1994-2000, I show that competition, as measured by lower level of industrial price …

linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of high … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …

product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that … recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … reallocation. They find weak gains from measured reallocation and strong within-plant productivity gains. We show these findings …

emigration patterns. Switzerland has the largest percent of immigrant scientists working in country (56.7); Canada, and Australia …

policies, such as mandating open-source technology, can make matters worse. …