Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one … fixed effects. We show adding human capital variables and the wage bill decreases the ratio of the 90th to 10th productivity … quantiles from 3.27 to 2.68 across eight Danish manufacturing and service industries. The productivity dispersion decrease is …

attempt to raise their productivity to the level required to gain employment. Second, employers faced with an inability to …

policies can have larger effects, if accompanied by substantial salary increases. However, misalignment between productivity …

factor productivity, consistent with a theory where immigration increases the variety of skills available for production. We …

employment, average hours worked, physical capital accumulation and, most importantly, total factor productivity and its skill … and hours worked by natives. At the same time we find robust evidence that they increased total factor productivity, on … results are robust to controlling for several other determinants of productivity that may vary with geography such as R …

productivity slowdown in the 1970s and resurgence in the 1990s. Lucas (1978) suggests that the quality of managers plays a … influx of young workers will lower the overall quality of management and lower total factor productivity. Census data shows …, increasing managerial quality and raising total factor productivity. Using the Lucas model as a framework, a calibrated model of …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … adoption: its employment of workers with STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) skills and experience who we call … “techies”. We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and …

In this chapter we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on … the local economy depends on these skills. We emphasize that to evaluate correctly such impact we also need to understand …