estimates. To assess the importance of these assumptions, we examine two natural experiments: the recession in cotton textile … adjusting for migration, we find that mortality increased during the cotton recession, but was largely unaffected by the coal …

efficiency. First, treatment firms have higher productivity and quality after controlling for rug specifications. Second, when …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

This study uses state-level variation in labor productivity levels at twenty-year intervals between 1880 and 1980 to … differences in state productivity levels: states with navigable waterways, a large minerals endowment, and no slaves in 1860, on … average, had higher labor productivity levels throughout the sample period. However, we find little support for two other …

firms and reductions in earnings per worker. Productivity gains arise mainly from an accelerated exit of less productive …

Measures of productivity growth typically include in the Productivity "residual" the impacts of subequilibrium from … productivity growth can be attributed to production characteristics other than technical change, particularly scale economies …

In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in … factor productivity (TFP) gross. This is achieved through a novel application of the Viner-Wng envelope theorem, which allows … correct for this source of productivity change would have led to a 31% under estimate of long-run TFP growth in Canada arid a …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …