This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a …

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a … framework that point to high positive effects of works councils on productivity. …

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One …

switch to salary firms once their productivity is revealed. The magnitude of the resulting worker flows depends on the payoff …. Advantages in measuring worker productivity constitute a plausible explanation for the emergence of specialized business related …

labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves ….e. unexpected changes in the drift and standard deviation of the stochastic process describing the dynamics of productivity, depends … workers with idiosyncratic productivity below some threshold value. A more volatile environment, and a lower rate of …

aggregate productivity growth during the socialist and reform periods in six transition economies. Modifying a standard … decomposition technique to better reflect the role of firm entry, we find that reallocation rates and productivity contributions are … very low under socialism. After reforms, they rise dramatically, and productivity contributions greatly exceed those …