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important in explaining welfare losses from revenue productivity dispersion …
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impact on post-entry size, survival, and productivity of startups. Consistent with our organizational capital hypothesis …
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This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
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We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …
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The literature on inventory holdings stresses their role in smoothing production when costs are convex. Existing empirical evidence suggests that output is more variable than consumption so that production smoothing is not apparently present. One way of explaining this finding is to allow for...
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productivity across firms within narrowly defined sectors. Our hypothesis is that periods of rapid innovation are accompanied by … high rates of entry, significant experimentation and, in turn, a high degree of productivity dispersion. Following this … experimentation phase, successful innovators and adopters grow while unsuccessful innovators contract and exit yielding productivity …
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reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal … marginal responsiveness of employment growth to business-level productivity has weakened. The responsiveness in the post-2000 … in the 1990s. Counterfactuals show that weakening productivity responsiveness since 2000 accounts for a significant drag …
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firms and reductions in earnings per worker. Productivity gains arise mainly from an accelerated exit of less productive …
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An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
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This paper studies competing sources of declining dynamism. Evidence shows that an important component of this decline is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level dynamic optimization problem as a framework for analysis,...
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