The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in … economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative … working proprietors, to study the relationships among entry, worker flows and firm productivity. Entrants are more productive …

According to unpublished data compiled by BLS, productivity in the construction industry reached a peak in 1968 and … this productivity decline between 1968 and 1978 by estimating a production function to assign weights to various factors … responsible for productivity change and deriving a new price deflator for construction which does not rely on labor or material …

Previous studies using micro data to estimate the impact of unions on productivity in construction in the early 1970's … have found productivity to be higher for union than nonunion contractors in the private sector. The validity of these …-nonunion productivity differences over a sample of retail stores and shopping centers built in the late 1970's. It finds that square footage …

This paper examines the difference in productivity between union and nonunion contractors in the construction industry … belief that the building trades unions reduce productivity in the industry is soundly rejected in both samples. Square …-nonunion productivity difference in the school sample range from zero (when output is measured in physical units) to 20 percent greater for …