imputed data for at least one variable used to compute total factor productivity. The Bureau primarily imputes for missing …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of …

The effect of coworkers on the learning and the productivity of an individual is measured combining theory and data …

how this leads to an underestimation of productivity growth in the early years of a new GPT, and how later, when the … benefits of intangible investments are harvested, productivity growth will be overestimated. Our model generates a Productivity … J-Curve that can explain the productivity slowdowns often accompanying the advent of GPTs, as well as the increase in …

. 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 …

the impact of workplace practices, information technology and human capital investments on productivity. We estimate an … within and GMM estimators. We find that what is associated with higher productivity is not so much whether or not an employer … practices that promote joint decision making coupled with incentive based compensation have higher productivity than other …