We use household-level panel data from China and a quantitative framework to document the ex- tent and consequences of … aggregate agricultural productivity in China by affecting two key margins: (1) the allocation of resources across farmers …

untested implication of many theories rationalizing the growth of within-group inequality is that firm-level productivity … dispersion should also have increased. The relevant data for the US is problematic, so we utilize a UK panel dataset covering the … manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors since the early 1980s. We find evidence that productivity inequality has increased …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D-to-innovation and innovation-to-productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant …'s business strategy. We also find that plants sold post-intervention exhibit a significant improvement in productivity under new … increase in labor productivity. Additional tests refute alternative explanations that attribute the improvement to mean …

productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …

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 …

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 …

standard productivity measures. TFPQ performs poorly because of variation in product specifications across firms. Controlling … for specifications aligns TFPQ with lab benchmarks. We also collect quality metrics to construct quality productivity (the …-dimensional productivity, or capability. As quality productivity is negatively correlated with TFPQ, TFPR may perform better at capturing …