We examine two sources of productivity improvements in localized industrial clusters of the silk-reeling industry in … prewar Japan. Agglomeration improves the productivity of each plant through positive externalities which shift plant …-level productivity distribution to the right. Selection expels less productive plants through competition, which truncates the …

region productivity premium. Using a model of heterogeneous firms that can move between regions, Baldwin and Okubo (2006 … regions from both ends of the productivity distribution. Firms with high capital intensity and high productivity as well as … firms with very low productivity and low capital intensity tend to relocate to the core. We use Japanese micro data to …

In this paper we consider aggregate Malmquist productivity index measures which allow inputs to be reallocated within … Nesterenko and Zelenyuk (2007) with the aggregate Malmquist productivity index results of Zelenyuk (2006) to determine aggregate … Malmquist productivity indexes that are justified by economic theory, consistent with previous aggregation results, and which …

productivity and export demand in timber manufacturing industries. The model is structurally estimated using Indonesian timber … environmental abatement has little impact on productivity dynamics, but does encourage growth in export demand. Counterfactual …

addressed the productivity and efficiency of the core area of the armed forces, operational units, using Data Envelopment … Analysis (DEA). Introducing a model for the production process of an operational unit, productivity and efficiency are …

jobs. This paper first documents the magnitude and productivity of job and worker reallocation. It then investigates the … reallocation and its productivity in Hungary, Romania, Russia, and Ukraine. We find that market reform has resulted in a large … central planning, the job reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth …

's productivity puzzle. We show that a correct reworking of the latest official data on changes in labour composition overturns GHW … explanations of the productivity puzzle. …

This note responds to a critique of our recent paper, “Can Intangible Investment Explain the UK Productivity Puzzle …, the puzzle is that measured labour productivity has been falling, but labour quality is rising, so, at least on this … measure, changes in labour quality cannot explain falling productivity. …

research is concerned, particular emphasis is given to the origin and development of the studies about Productivity increases …

conditions for an incomes policy to be successful. He then analysed the different methods of linking wages to productivity in a …