This paper presents estimates of the productivity and factor bias effects of interindustry Ramp;D spillovers for five …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

, we examine how the productivity of these firms is influenced by their internal wage dispersion. To do so, we use a large … dispersion has a positive and significant effect on firm productivity. This result is robust to controls for individual and firm …

integrated. These patterns are consistent, however, with an alternative efficiency-based mechanism. Namely, higher productivity … evidence that integrated producers' productivity advantage is tied to improved logistics coordination afforded by large local … local concrete operations have similarly high productivity levels …

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms … of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of … and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal …

urban locations is endogenous and linked to productivity differences between the two locations and survival probabilities …

-open-economy real-business-cycle model driven by nonstationary productivity shocks. We find that the RBC model does a poor job at … business cycles in emerging markets and, importantly, assigns a negligible role to nonstationary productivity shocks …