The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's …, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy …. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing plants, in contrast, rose by over 5 percentage points. We reconcile …

We examine the effect of pregnancy and parenthood on the research productivity of academic economists. Combining the … find that motherhood is associated with low research productivity. Nor do we find a statistically significant unconditional … effect of a first child on research productivity. Conditional difference-in-differences estimates, however, suggest that the …

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … two contributions to the literature on the macroeconomics of population ageing. First we show that it is important to … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …

demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in … order to stabilize labor incomes and redistribute resources. It proposes a specific stylized model where the tradeoffs … facing labor policies are influenced by structural factors, inspects the empirical relevance of this mechanism in European …

of climate policy. This study presents the results of the first comprehensive study of uncertainty in climate change … using multiple integrated assessment models. The study looks at model and parametric uncertainties for population, total … factor productivity, and climate sensitivity. It estimates the pdfs of key output variables, including CO2 concentrations …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when … drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from …