unionism and productivity and discusses its implications for future research on more general issues. The main focus is on (I …) conclusions as to whether unions raise or lower productivity and (2) procedures used to identify the channels through which unions … affect productivity. The studies of unions and productivity have documented large productivity differences between seemingly …

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 …

Aggregate data show a large and decades-long decline in construction sector productivity. This decline in such a large … sector has had a material effect on secular productivity growth for the economy as a whole. Prior work has focused on the … role of potential measurement problems in construction, particularly output deflators in the measurement of productivity …

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 …