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This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …
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-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product …
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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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We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …
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fields that standard measures of productivity – like output per worker or total factor productivity – vary substantially … productivity across firms mirror the trends in the wage inequality across workers. Two distinct literatures have searched for a … productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to more and …
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Using a new survey, we show that the dispersion of marginal products across firms in the European Union is about twice as large as that in the United States. Reducing it to the US level would increase EU GDP by more than 30 percent. Alternatively, removing barriers between industries and...
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We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …
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The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...
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We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
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This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a … productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a … larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that …
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