the technologyadoption cost in one country increases the productivity, induces more firms to adoptadvanced technology, and … improves welfare in this country, while decreasing the pro-ductivity, inducing more firms to switch back to old technology, and …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

education, and in consequence, inequality increases. We also show that wages and productivity gaps between high-tech and low …

This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …

general pattern of productivity growth and industrial development. This paper surveys the literature on services trade …