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To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity … shocks? I estimate that temperature-driven reductions in the demand for agricultural labor in India are associated with … a key role in attenuating the economic consequences of agricultural productivity shocks. Exploiting firm-level variation …
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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …
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inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i … aggregate demand. A second is that the predictions of AI causing massive job losses and faster growth in productivity and GDP … growth and productivity is stagnating and inequality is rising. Our paper provides a theoretical explanation of this in the …
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productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US. …
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increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However … novel and rigorous evidence on the productivity effect of varying attributes of PRP and shows that the details of PRP indeed … establish that the omitted variable bias is serious, makes the cross-sectional estimates on the productivity effect of the …
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We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking the Annual Business … as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …
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We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …
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We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed … and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide … information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity …
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performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …
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dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
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