Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output … duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous ability of individuals can explain the differences in labor productivity … can explain that despite an increase in human capital in both sectors, there is still a gap in productivity. In other …

How do political connections affect firm dynamics, innovation, and creative destruction? To answer this question, we … build a firm dynamics model, where we allow firms to invest in innovation and/or political connection to advance their … productivity and to overcome certain market frictions. Our model generates a number of theoretical testable predictions and …

international awards for innovation were higher near universities. …

the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage … countries. In the first theoretical part, we discuss some theoretical aspects of uneven sectoral productivity and wage catching … study of catching-up of wages, productivity, and labour unit costs. The analysis is conducted at the industrial level (ISIC …