Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push … imply a semi-elasticity of native wages to immigration of −0.7 if the extensive margin of labour supply is ignored (the … zeroes of displaced workers are averaged in), and +0.12 on the wages of those who remain working. The effect on immigrant …

Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

to assess whether they are substitutes or complements in channelling knowledge spillovers. Results show that all …

with a monopolistic competition framework a la Dixit-Stiglitz considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity … run equilibrium only those firms with survive in the market which have a sufficiently high productivity level or can … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

This paper exploits a geocoded, publicly audited, full population dataset on employment and wages in Sweden's city … areas, to analyze the relationship between density of economic activity and individual wages. The analysis is based on 250 … resolution. A doubling of density in a 250 meter square is associated with a 3.7 percent increase in wages, holding individual …

This paper attempts to analyze the impact of knowledge and knowledge spillovers on regional total factor productivity … knowledge spills over to neighboring regions. These spillovers decay exponentially with distance at a rate of 8%. Using Monte …

productivity differences among regions within a regression framework in general and the impact of their spillovers on regional … total factor productivity in particular. The focus is laid on interregional spillovers between the Western and Eastern EU … empirical studies in the sense that once the human capital is accounted for, the significance and magnitude of spillovers from …