important in explaining welfare losses from revenue productivity dispersion …

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 …

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 …

Do recessions speed up or impede productivity-enhancing reallocation? To investigate this question, we use U.S. linked … employer-employee data to examine how worker flows contribute to productivity growth over the business cycle. We find that in … expansions high-productivity firms grow faster primarily by hiring workers away from lower-productivity firms. The rate at which …

labor productivity and lower labor shares. In particular, the use of these technologies is associated with a 11.4% higher … labor productivity, which accounts for 20-30% of the difference in labor productivity between large firms and the median …

impact on post-entry size, survival, and productivity of startups. Consistent with our organizational capital hypothesis …

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 …

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 …