-run growth into its underlying drivers. At low frequencies, variations in the growth rate of labor productivity appear to be the …

Throughout the post-war era until 1995 labour productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe’s productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative trade-off between productivity and …

In this paper we quantify the effects of the Small Scale Reservation Laws in India on the aggregate productivity …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …

This paper studies procyclical productivity growth at the industry level in the U.S. and in three European countries … explain procyclical productivity. However, this correction still leaves one in three U.S. industries with procyclical … productivity. This failure of the model can also be seen in Europe and is mostly concentrated in services industries. …

What is the effect of imports on productivity? To answer this question, we estimate a structural model of producers … productivity through expanding variety as well as improved input quality. The model leads to a production function where the total … factor productivity of a firm depends on the share of inputs imported. To estimate this import-augmented production function …

between firm size, scope and productivity. More efficient firms become exporters, but not all exporters are large and not all …

(MC) sector in which firms may have heterogeneous productivity levels. Domestic protection brings gains from expanding the …