The aim of this study is to provide evidence on the relation between specialisation patterns and productivity in … explaining productivity differences among countries by making use of panel data modeling. Descriptive findings show that high … data estimation results show a positive association between absolute specialisation in production and labour productivity …

This paper discusses welfare costs of a decrease in productivity and argues that there are two important channels which … utility and common productivity across firms fail to capture the extensive margin. To address this problem, this paper … introduces “continuum-quadratic” utility while keeping the other assumptions unchanged and finds that lowering productivity …

(MERCOSUR) on productivity, employment and wages for the Uruguayan manufacturing sector at the plant level. We use impact … liberalization seems to improve total factor productivity with a greater effect on plants belonging to the import competing sector … the wage gap between white and blue collars as a result of increased trade exposure. Thus, the increase in productivity …

This paper analyses the relationship between productivity, innovation and research at firm level using an extension of … and/or of process. Finally, the estimations also emphasize that increases in productivity are positively correlated with …

This work analyses the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on productivity, the demand for skilled labour and … productivity, relative wages and relative employment of skilled workers, through conventional pooled OLS. Then, we estimate … results seem to indicate that FDI is associated with higher productivity and an increased demand for skilled labour …

Differences in productivity explain much of the growing income gap between Australia and New Zealand. Good policy … responses rely on understanding the sources of these differences. Seventy percent of the aggregate gap in productivity between … structure of the two countries. Our findings support the idea of studying and tackling the root causes of productivity …

As we emerge from a deep and long recession, the debate must shift again to how New Zealand can lift its productivity … either need to boost productivity and lift volumes, or create price premia. This can be done by moving up the value chain and …

Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve …