establishments. The effect of these changes on establishment productivity, however, is unclear. Existing evidence is based on a … unions on productivity is examined in the present paper using establishment level data from the U.S. cement industry. The … supported in time series data, where a comparison of productivity before and after unionization reveals a positive union effect …

standard productivity measures. TFPQ performs poorly because of variation in product specifications across firms. Controlling … for specifications aligns TFPQ with lab benchmarks. We also collect quality metrics to construct quality productivity (the …-dimensional productivity, or capability. As quality productivity is negatively correlated with TFPQ, TFPR may perform better at capturing …

Average wage growth is closely related to aggregate productivity growth across countries and within countries over time …. The commonality of patterns across OECD countries suggests that common factors are at work. Are productivity …-biased technological change or other factors? To answer this, it is necessary to observe education-specific productivity growth. Cross …

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 …

The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in … economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative … working proprietors, to study the relationships among entry, worker flows and firm productivity. Entrants are more productive …

We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and whether such effects …

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 …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …