We use firm-level data for 15 countries and 13 manufacturing sectors to estimate firm-level productivity parameters and … to establish representative country-sector-specific empirical productivity distributions. We use these distributions … of technology in shaping international trade flows. We find that, on average, absolute advantage measured as productivity …

higher profits, but forcing less-productive firms to reduce prices and earn lower profits. As a result, low-productivity …

and their productivity. Recent work suggests that these calculations should treat workers of different skill levels as … imperfect substitutes. However, under this approach, it has been challenging to compute skill-specific productivity levels for a … data set on labor force composition to construct measures of productivity for workers in three distinct skill categories …

variables are included as explanatory variables. Estimates found using quantitative theory depend in critical ways on values of …

determinant of the distribution of world population and a prime cause of the Great Divergence in income per capita across … countries in the last two centuries. The theory suggests that international trade affected the evolution of economies … comparative advantage generates an important new insight regarding the distribution of the gains from trade. The theory suggests …

imported goods and the productivity differential of domestic firms with the rest of the world. We show that increased import …. Domestic productivity growth converges to the international rate through firm-level investment in process innovation. With … competition, through either a larger number of imported goods or a faster international rate of productivity growth, leads to …

We estimate the relationship between productivity and trade for a panel of countries over the period 1980 to 2000 using … instrumental-variables estimation of a productivity equation. We note that some estimates of productivity gains attributed to trade … productivity. The trade instrument is based on a "theoretically motivated' gravity equation. The instruments for institutional …

examines the implications of heterogeneity in construction productivity on cross-country income disparity. We estimate the 10 …:1 spread in construction productivity among 145 countries in 2005 as a factor of 61.7-fold. Based on a general equilibrium … construction productivity gap is eliminated. Sectoral characterization of the aggregate effect of a change in construction …