We propose a new measure of allocative efficiency based on unrealized increases in aggregate productivity growth. We …

that average productivity rises, that the firm will attract a more able work force and that the variance in output across … structures between 1994 and 1995. All theoretical predictions are borne out. In the firm examined, the productivity effects are … worker-specific increase in productivity is passed on to workers in the form of higher wages …

The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent … per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 ….1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This paper provides a unified framework that explains productivity growth …

the labor productivity of workers across the age distribution, while one-third arises from slower labor force growth. Our …

We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …

engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …

harmonized cross-country and industry data, where we measure automation as industry-level movements in total factor productivity …

The quality of governance depends on public sector worker productivity. We use micro data from China to document that … productivity costs of local disamenities. We find that the public sector productivity elasticities are larger than published … estimates of the private sector productivity elasticities with respect to pollution.Institutional subscribers to the NBER …

the process, the exact pace and timing of agricultural productivity change is still unresolved. The traditional view is … one of continued progress in which output and productivity increased steadily, accelerating over the period. The Civil War … that the period before the Civil War had the superior record and experienced particularly rapid productivity growth between …