Italy and Germany have similar geographical differences in productivity – North more productive than South in Italy …; West more productive than East in Germany – but have adopted different models of wage bargaining. Italy sets wages based on …

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 …

We investigate how the deterioration of household balance sheets affects worker productivity, and whether such effects …