The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the … data, 1982-1997, with observed productivity changes much more likely due to changes in speed limits and the dimensions of …

reservation wages, shifting the labor force towards the more productive firms. The relation between productivity dispersion and UI … policy is mediated by the wage posting policies of firms that take both productivity and policy into account. Optimal UI … policy is shown to crucially depend on the properties of the firm productivity distribution, such as its variance and …

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

that this would positively affect firms' productivity, sales, employment or profits? To address these questions we assemble …B visas were relaxed, a subset of firms would experience gains in average labor productivity, firm size, and profits …. These empirical findings are consistent with a heterogeneous-firms model where innovation enhances productivity and is …

discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …

the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …