An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled … use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms to explore convergence to the national frontier. Given this within …

euro has been accompanied by a reallocation of activity within rather than across sectors. Since its adoption, productivity …

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more … and (ii) in an accounting sense the skills gap between the firms in the top and bottom deciles of the TFP distribution …

We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian … production function that depends on the skill composition show that a firm's productivity is positively related to skill …

on productivity, or have operated indirectly as barriers to the diffusion of productivity-enhancing innovations across …

A number of writers have recently questioned whether labour productivity or per capita incomes were ever higher in the … productivity lead in industry as early as 1840, especially in manufacturing, labour productivity was broadly equal in the two … countries in agriculture, while the United Kingdom was ahead in services. Hence aggregate labour productivity was higher in the …

comparative productivity performance in food products and beverages and in chemicals in East Germany is well above this average …, but the productivity level in machinery and equipment is below 20% of the West German level. The study deals with the … comparative output and productivity performance in the past five decades. It appears that even after adjustments of the East …