US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post-1995 trend growth … thesource of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is noempirical evidence on the influence … Transport, were found to haveexperienced strong productivity growth via ICT-skill complementarities. These findingsshed light on …

productivity. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant … manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction developed by Diewert and Nakamura (2009) to the input … offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing was overstated by 0 …

This paper studies whether NAFTA contributed to the productivity convergence between Mexico and the US. Using data from … productivity and estimation methods, it shows that the productivity gap increased and converged to a higher gap level. Moreover, it … the previous literature. The paper also finds that under NAFTA the industries which have smaller initial productivity gap …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …

This paper investigates the connection between firm entry and exit and labour productivity growth. The study has its … importance of productivity enhancing restructuring has been increasingly acknowledged and all these theories depict the … productivity enhancing effects that external restructuring - in particular firm entry and exit - may have. Despite the vast …

Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied both theoretically and empirically. Superstatistics is … presented as a natural theoretical framework for productivity. The demand index ê is proposed within this framework as a new … business index. Japanese productivity data covering small-to-medium to large firms from 1996 to 2006 is analyzed and the power …

Labour productivity distribution (dispersion) is studied within the framework of statistical physics and the result is … productivity distribution. The demand index ê is proposed within this framework as a new business index. Productivity analysis is …

Sectoral shifts, such as shrinkage of low labour productivity and the low-wage construction sector, can lead to … apparent increased aggregate average labour productivity and average wages, especially when capital intensity differs across … sectors. For 11 main sectors and 13 manufacturing sub-sectors, we quantify the compositional effects on productivity, wages …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …