productivity growth, particularly in large relatively closed economies like the USA, will tend to raise middle class incomes. At …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 …

decomposition of total factor productivity growth …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

production of academic knowledge. Using data from the MIT Department of Biology for the period 1970-2000, we analyze the … evolution over time of four fundamental aspects of their productivity: i) training duration; ii) time to a first publication …; iii) productivity over the training period; and iv) collaboration with other scientists. We identified four main trends …

How large are spatial barriers to transferring knowledge? We analyze the international operations of multinational … firms to answer this fundamental question. In our model firms can transfer bits of knowledge to their foreign affiliates in … either embodied (traded intermediates) or disembodied form (direct communication). Knowledge transfer costs interact with the …