annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant negative relationship between pollution abatement costs and productivity … deviation increase in abatement costs is predicted to reduce productivity by 5.4 percent. Older plants appear to have lower …

west German per capita level, and convergence seems to have come to a halt at an overall labor productivity of only 55% of …

We measure the contribution of firm-embedded productivity to cross-country income differences. By firm …-embedded productivity we refer to the components of productivity that differ across firms and that can be transferred internationally, such … face less competition in less-developed countries, suggesting that firm-embedded productivity in those countries is scarce …

, including persistently high but declining rates of labor and total-factor productivity growth, a U-shaped response of the …

leaders. We find strong evidence of technological diffusion but not full convergence; differences in total factor productivity …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

This paper examines the impact of the operations of foreign-owned multinational firms on the productivity growth of …-owned firms affects the productivity of local firms in that sector and whether there is any evidence of convergence between that … industry's productivity level and that of the United States. The main results can be summarized as follows: First, productivity …

Economists believe that because technology is a public good national productivity levels should "converge." William … finds that the productivity levels of sixteen such nations have converged since 1870. But convergence in Baumol's sample is …