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 …

An 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 …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity …

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … small firms, despite their lower productivity levels, is not responsible for the decline. We also cannot confirm the …

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth … or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such … and used these inputs to estimate the short-run and long-run relationship between labor market flows, labor productivity …

We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity … might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and … thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …

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 …

performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …