This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment …

Resource misallocation can lower aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). We use micro data on manufacturing …

How have labor market institutions and welfare-state transfers affected jobs and productivity in Western Europe …

William Baumol and his co-authors have analyzed the impact of differential productivity growth on the health of … and price increases, take a rising share of national output, and slow aggregate productivity growth. Using industry data … have tended to lower overall productivity growth as the share of stagnant sectors has risen over the second half of the …

Why is agricultural productivity so low in poor countries relative to the rest of the world? Is it due to geography or … constrained economic choices? We assess the quantitative role of geography and land quality for agricultural productivity … geographic regions, we find that low agricultural productivity in poor countries is not due to poor land endowments. If countries …