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 …

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 …

Multinational firms transfer to their foreign affiliates superior technology, leading to higher productivity of their … workers and therefore to higher wages, or so the often cited rent-sharing theory of multinational firms explains. But studies … positively related to wages and are more prevalent in foreign than in domestically owned firms (for example size, capital …

-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …