their association with productivity growth across 19 sectors in UK manufacturing between 1970 and 1992. Using the … in 1970. Sectors classified as relatively open enjoyed significantly higher rates of total factor productivity (TFP … productivity and lagged values of each of the observed measures of openness. This relationship was explained by a strong …

increases firm productivity …

This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity …

industrial structures with higher productivity. -- Total factor productivity ; structural estimation ; rural-urban divides ; UK …We compute the productivity gaps in manufacturing industries by urban, rural less sparse and rural sparse locations in … productivity differentials across locations by decomposing them into firm differences within the same industry and by differences …

The focus of the paper is on evaluating the productivity gap between rural and urban locations in the UK using micro … data. We build a structural model of the unobservable productivity emphasising the link between productivity and spatial … density of economic activity and adapt the semi-parametric estimation approach proposed in Olley and Pakes (1996) to estimate …

We compute aggregate productivity of manufacturing industries by urban, rural less sparse and rural sparse locations in … manufacturing industries using FAME data over the period 1994-2001. We analyse the productivity differentials across location … categories by decomposing them into industry productivity effect and industry composition effect. Our analysis indicates that at …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

services in output and its integration in the world economy. Productivity growth in the United Kingdom has consistently … financial crisis. Sluggish productivity growth in the service sectors was the main factor behind this weak performance. Raising … productivity will help to sustain employment and wages but will require a broad range of policies. Keeping low barriers to trade …