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-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …
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Applications for new businesses from the U.S. Census Bureau's monthly and weekly Business Formation Statistics (BFS) fell substantially in the early stages of the pandemic but then surged in the second half of 2020. This surge has continued through May 2021. The pace of applications since...
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paper estimates the effects of offshoring on productivity in US manufacturing industries between 1992 and 2000. It finds … that service offshoring has a significant positive effect on productivity in the US, accounting for around 10 percent of … labor productivity growth during this period. Offshoring material inputs also has a positive effect on productivity, but the …
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We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … divergence: the degree to which the levels of productivity and pay have diverged. The second is delinkage: the degree to which … incremental increases in the rate of productivity growth translate into incremental increases in the rate of growth of pay …
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decomposition of total factor productivity growth …
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productivity increases by less, measured labor productivity growth falls compared to the middle period. However this fall reflects … productivity growth rates. Substantial variation in these growth rates remains within the 1929-1965 and 1965-1978 periods. Slow … quality-adjusted labor productivity growth during 1929-1948 is just offset by unusually rapid growth during 1948-1965; these …
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Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that … African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of … Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms allowing returns to local area concentrations of economic activity and …
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The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators … challenges to this "mismeasurement hypothesis." First, the productivity slowdown has occurred in dozens of countries, and its … output" resulting from the productivity growth slowdown. The largest--by some distance--is less than one-third of the …
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Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences … share of the variance of store-level productivity; (ii) negative assortative matching between managers and stores, which may … productivity also tend to obtain high energy productivity, revealing some breadth in managers' skills applicability; (vii) high …
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time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our … calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S., we show that the distributions of both wages and productivity have spread … out over time, as the right tail lengthens for both. We add OECD countries, showing that the wage-productivity correlation …
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