It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. But there are … many reasons why wages and productivity may diverge. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of work … training, productivity and wages. Using a variety of econometric estimation techniques (including system GMM) we find that …

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of …

Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second … 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most … of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased effort. Additionally, the increase in effort …

locate across regions with distinct distributions of workers and wages. Firm technologies which best match regional labor … markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

It is widely believed that in the US wage growth has fallen massively behind productivity growth. Recently, it has also … than median wages. We distinguish between "net decoupling" - the difference in growth of GDP per hour deflated by the GDP … hour deflated by the GDP deflator and median wages deflated by a measure of consumer price inflation. We would expect that …

education distribution will boost productivity and real wages. … Pessoa and John Van Reenen. Their investigation of claims that wage growth has become 'decoupled' from productivity growth … finds that decoupling has been overstated and cannot be used to justify redressing the balance between wages and profits …