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 …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … different settings - for example, when moving long haul versus short haul traffic - and the measurement of changes in physical … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the …

We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to …

-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …

union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

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

agents in a highly non-linear incentive system, we find that the improvement in productivity far outweighed the costs … accordingly focus more on the productivity-enhancing than on the distortionary effects …

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on … world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries …, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of productivity and how it is measured. We discuss the concept of "decent work …