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

in the payroll tax rate to estimate its impact on the firm's level of employment, average wage and productivity, with … employment, productivity and profits, but significant impacts on wages, implying that payroll taxes are passed almost entirely to …

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 …

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 …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …

share of the overall cost of displacement. However, and despite the positive correlation between premium and productivity in … the cross-section of firms, we find that workers are reemployed by high productivity, low labor share firms. The observed … reallocation is therefore productivity-enhancing, yet costly for workers. We show that destination firms are less likely to …

-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more … classroom training. We then demonstrate that on-the-job training has a positive impact on firm-level productivity through …

the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …