An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

This paper explores the role of knowledge flows and productivity growth by linking direct survey data on knowledge …

three questions (a) What is the source of knowledge flows? (b) To what extent do such flows contribute to productivity …

Almost all studies of skilled/unskilled employment over the 1980s use data on manuals and non-manuals to measure skill …. This paper constructs data on skilled/unskilled employment using occupational data from the UK New Earnings Survey Panel …, subcontracting etc. The major findings are: (a) the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment rose by 4.4%; (b) the averaging effect …