productivity. Both, with the addition of the price ratio, determine the productivity of capital, a key variable in understanding …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth of within-firm productivity changes and between … what extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels as compared to variation thereof. Our key finding … is an overall weak relationship between productivity and growth, and therefore a weak power of selection forces in all …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

productivity of firms. However, there is less consensus about the underlying mechanism at work. While trade papers focus on access … leads to productivity increases, but only for firms that were already highly productive before. The evidence on import … competition is weaker. If anything, initially low-tech firms manage to increase their productivity in response to increased …