We study the origins of labor productivity growth and its differences across sectors. In our model, sectors employ … a large and increasing contribution to aggregate labor productivity growth. Neither capital accumulation nor the …

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 … - 2001. We allow market structure to differ by endogenous export status and location choices and model productivity as a …

be that, for Italy, the North-South divide in productivity levels is more apparent in capital and knowledge intensive … sectors, especially when industrial districts are present. The productivity gap tends to grow for larger firms, but there …, clothing, textile) are characterized by low labor productivity levels: in these cases the productivity gap between Northern and …