probability of plant exit (controlling for productivity) based on the improved imputations. For some estimands, we find …Within-industry differences in measured plant-level productivity are large. A large literature has been devoted to … classification and regression trees. We use our imputations and the Bureau's imputations to estimate within-industry productivity …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

This paper examines the determinants of productivity in Japanese manufacturing industries, looking particularly at the … impact of product market competition on productivity. Using a newly available panel data on around ten thousand firms in …-cost margin, enhances productivity growth, controlling for a broad range of industrial and firm-specific characteristics. Moreover …

recent robust growth in Aggregate Labor Productivity (ALP) across twenty-five countries is due to lower barriers to input … reallocation. They find weak gains from measured reallocation and strong within-plant productivity gains. We show these findings … product of labor and changes in OL as a proxy for changes in plant-level productivity. We provide simple examples to show that …

While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, previous research has mostly failed to … identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also …-plant efficiency gains of 15-25%. Because markups remain relatively stable after export entry, most of these gains are passed on to …

entry rates and increases in plant productivity. These results are not present for districts located on another major …

the entry was mainly found among household-based establishments. We measure and discuss the extent to which this …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

) that has been modified to include ICT investment and R&D as the two main inputs into innovation and productivity. We find … that R&D and ICT are both strongly associated with innovation and productivity, with R&D being more important for … innovation, and ICT investment being more important for productivity. For the median firm, rates of return to both investments …