designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

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 …

their framework to consider measurement error due to the use of proxy/representative respondents. First, we document a … reduction in the gender gap can be smaller than what the estimates without taking into account the measurement error might … suggest. We conclude that a careful validation study would be necessary to ascertain the magnitude of the spurious measurement …

unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper …

consideration of two measurement issues that have typically been overlooked in the literature: the implications of the …