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 …

’s assessment of the economic or financial situation of the workplace and its relative labor productivity. Trust is initially …

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 … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

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 …

), 552-80, to derive a new prediction regarding how the productivity of a firm affects its choice between vertical … robust firm-level evidence from Spain showing that, in line with our prediction, the effect of productivity works more …

the 1980s. C-corporate form is subject to a time varying tax wedge, which offsets the productivity benefits. In a … (productivity), the share of total output generated by C-corporations, and the sensitivity of this share to the tax wedge. This … in the tax wedge since 1968 has expanded economy-wide productivity by about 4% …

Corporate versus pass-through status trades off productivity benefits (related to perpetual identity, limited liability … productivity (TFP) and corporate shares of economic activity, implies that, for 1958-2013, the declining wedge and gap between … corporate and pass-through productivity contributed 0.37% per year out of the total TFP growth rate of 1.09% per year. From 1994 …

firms position themselves in global production lines and how this evolves with productivity and performance over the firm …