quantity of education. The new measure has a strong link to productivity with the potential for productivity gains being much … education policy (pre-primary education) on human capital and productivity to demonstrate the usefulness of the new measure for …

-term consequences, among which are losses in human capital that will impact aggregate productivity for many years. Exploiting a new … losses in long-run aggregate productivity operating through the human capital channel could be at about 7% if the war lasts …

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 …