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 … 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 …

This paper uses unique Finnish firm-level micro data on service imports, work-force composition, and firm … characteristics to examine changes in employment composition and performance of Finnish service importers during a period of a … of (high-skilled) managers and improve their performance in terms of sales (turnover), assets, service exports, and firm …

investigates the relationship between labour costs and the decision to hire a first employee and become an employer. Leveraging a … unique policy in Belgium that permanently reduced the labour cost of the first employee by 13%, we find that the number of … first employee with respect to the labour cost is −2.39 [95% CI: −3.45, −1.25] …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …