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 …

might continue to have a sizable dent on future productivity growth in Europe. By contrast, the impact in the U.S. is …This paper studies the effect of structural change on the historical path of aggregate labor productivity growth for a … that structural change may have on future productivity growth. We document that the observed reallocation of economic …

’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 …

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 …

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% …