compensating wage differential models, a panel formed from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997, and dynamic panel … estimation methods in this investigation. We uncover a causal relationship between two of five measures of health and the wage in …

competitive barriers increase productivity to Western levels …

is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …

indicate a substantial role for human capital accumulation in raising productivity, in contrast to the neoclassical focus on …

productivity …

We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …