productivity is derived. A semi-parametric approach is applied on a 3-digit level of industrial data over major states during 1998 …-2014 to regress Solow residual (the proxy for productivity) on trade share along with its interaction terms capturing market … productivity. It is argued that the joint effects of market size and competition arising out of trade cannot dominate the adverse …

industries. Over the same period, productivity gains from reallocation accounted for 50% of European productivity growth and … with changes in productivity and allocative efficiency. This holds across most sectors and countries and supports the …

industries. Over the same period, productivity gains from reallocation accounted for 50% of European productivity growth and … with changes in productivity and allocative efficiency. This holds across most sectors and countries and supports the …

firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by sorting theory, we infer firm productivity from estimating firm …Increasing wage inequality is associated with changes in the degree of labor market sorting, i.e. the allocation of …-level production functions, taking into account that worker ability and firm productivity may interact at the match level. Using German …

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …

We develop a quantitative framework in which income inequality arises endogenously in response to productivity shocks …

Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across … sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Y et, this positive trend in productivity should …

Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across … sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Yet, this positive trend in productivity should …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …