behavior of the primal and dual productivity residuals by allowing for increasing returns and imperfect competition. We find …

accompanying revival of productivity growth, directly contributed both to faster output growth and to holding down the inflation … the United States, they did not prevent the US from experiencing a dismal period of slow productivity growth between 1972 … and 1995 nor from falling behind in numerous industries outside the IT sector. The 1995-2000 productivity growth revival …

increase in the productivity and/or the supply of skilled relative to unskilled workers. These effects are stronger when hiring …

countries have essentially scale effects which eventually trickle down on employment and productivity at home. …

productivity and restructuring. Unlike previous studies we are able to account for the heterogeneity across firms in their exposure … by increasing productivity. The RER shock was associated with substantial within-firm productivity gains for net … exporters; gains that seem to have come about partly through technological improvements. The productivity gains also appear to …

productivity effects of gross job flow rates before and after reforms. Job creation was low throughout the period in this sector … also increased significantly. Intra- and inter-sectoral job reallocation had no effect on aggregate labour productivity … the firms with the lowest productivity. …

We analyse productivity growth in UK manufacturing 1980-92 using the newly available ARD panel of establishments drawn … establishments enter and increase market share). We find that (a) 'external restructuring' accounts for 50% of labour productivity …