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 …Sectoral shifts, such as shrinkage of low labour productivity and the low-wage construction sector, can lead to …

United Kingdom, in comparison with the USA. Firstly we analyze the role of productivity in the explanation of real wages … relationship between wages, productivity and human capital in 5 European Union countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the …, secondly we present a comparative study of the evolution of wages and productivity during the period 1985-2005, and thirdly we …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …