role of cross-firm dispersion in productivity in explaining dispersion in firm wage premia, as well as the factors shaping … the link between productivity and wages at the firm level. The results suggest that around 15% of cross-firm differences … in productivity are passed on to differences in firm wage premia. The degree of pass-through is systematically larger in …

Labour productivity growth in the service sector has been low relative to manufacturing. This is explained in part by … inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Increasing productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 67% of … boost productivity in service industries with high growth potential, such as telecommunications and financial and business. …

Labour productivity growth in the service sector, which accounts for 70% of Japan’s economic output and employment, has … inflows of foreign direct investment (FDI). Reversing the deceleration in productivity growth in the service sector is … productivity growth in services characterised by either low productivity or high growth potential, such as retail, transport …

This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks … observed divergence of productivity in OECD countries, given the emergence of new general-purpose technologies over the 1990s … of productivity shocks, namely the adoption of information and communications technology and the location decisions of …

education, objective measures of skills, which are highly correlated with employment and productivity in most OECD countries, do … productivity. …