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 …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favour of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …

uninsurable productivity. We find that setting taxes without accounting for the endogeneity of private insurance is close to …

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

Whether or not the use of remote work increases firm labour productivity is theoretically ambiguous. We use a rich and … empirically assess the causal productivity effect of remote work. Our findings from estimations of models with firm-fixed effects … suggest that the average productivity effect of allowing remote work is significantly negative, though relatively small in …