Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact …

price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply … migration mostly benefits low- productivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations …, migration however strongly contributes to the equalization of factor productivity across locations …

efficiency of 450 European universities between 2011 and 2014. The novelty of our approach lies in its extended coverage of …. Exploring potential efficiency drivers, we uncover considerable effect heterogeneity between subject clusters, which is … seek external funding are largely identified to be primary efficiency drivers …

We investigate a prevalent, but understudied, employment protection policy: mandatory advance notice (MN), requiring … improves production efficiency by increasing information sharing, whereas large production losses can be avoided by worker … leads to shorter non-employment duration and higher reemployment wages, plausibly driven by on-the-job search. Using …

drivers of the administration and delivery efficiency of coronavirus vaccines. For this purpose, we use data from the 50 US … economic prosperity and rural population aid vaccine administration and delivery efficiency. Delivery efficiency improves in … health workers, including physicians and nurses, did not significantly impact administration or efficiency. On the other hand …

We evaluate the impact of government spending efficiency on fiscal sustainability for a panel of 35 OECD countries … revenues to changes in government spending. Next, we make use of so-called government spending efficiency scores, which … the input efficiency scores obtained, countries’ fiscal balance and fiscal sustainability is directly improved by the use …