investment and hiring. Productivity growth also falls because this pause in activity freezes reallocation across units. In the … medium term the increased volatility from the shock induces an overshoot in output, employment and productivity. Thus, second …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …