larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. -- Technology diffusion ; R&D ; openness ; North-South …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …

How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

The paper explores the determinants of productivity gap within the European Union in four industrial manufacturing … Development' (R&D) intensity. Our analysis reveals that some of the most important factors determining productivity gap across the … of technology for closing the productivity gap, this is not the case with the interaction between these two variables …