The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators … output” resulting from the productivity growth slowdown. The largest—by some distance—is less than one-third of the … properly measured output and productivity growth rates of industries that produce and service ICTs would have to have been …

A vast firm productivity literature finds that otherwise similar firms differ widely in their productivity and that …,000 agricultural plots across four countries in Africa to study the size, source, and persistence of productivity dispersion among … smallholder farmers. Applying standard regression-based approaches to measuring productivity residuals, we find much larger …

productivity (TFP) estimates of Hsieh (2002) for Singapore. We find that TFP growth is insignificantly different from zero in any … general and easier to implement. In our application to Asian growth, we construct standard errors on the total factor …

Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one … fixed effects. We show adding human capital variables and the wage bill decreases the ratio of the 90th to 10th productivity … quantiles from 3.27 to 2.68 across eight Danish manufacturing and service industries. The productivity dispersion decrease is …

productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …

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 …

the famous Encyclopédie in mid-18th century France. We show that subscriber density is a strong predictor of city growth … in the cross-section, but they do not predict growth. Finally, by joining data on British patents with a large French … firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

. Second, density of physical capital in a city outside a plant has no effect on a plant's productivity. Third, most of the … productivity differences between cities with high and low levels of human capital match remarkably well differences in labor costs … equilibrium forces and spillovers, the productivity gains generated by human capital spillover are offset by increased labor costs …