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

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 …

The present study is a contribution to the theory of the measurement of productivity growth. First, it examines the … welfare-theoretic basis for measuring productivity growth and shows that the ideal welfare-theoretic measure is a chain index … of productivity growth rates of different sectors which uses current output weights. Second, it lays out a technique for …

unobservable determinants of productivity can still generate spurious evidence of discrimination in either direction. This paper …

occupation but succeed in another? More broadly, what are the factors that determine the productivity of a worker …

productivity. In the context of a semi-parametric model of productivity where these effects are assumed to enter in an additive … about the productivity-age relationship. We illustrate our methods using data on the publications 1986-1997 by 465 French …

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 …

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 …