values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …

summarized to a first order by the current and expected future values of the Solow productivity residual in level and by the …

would yield a substantial increase in aggregate productivity through improved allocative efficiency. Yet, the actual impact … of the Colombian deregulation on aggregate productivity through factor adjustment was modest …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …

In the U.S., some sectoral evidence suggests that growth is driven mainly by productivity enhancing reallocation. In … developing countries, an open question is whether reallocation is productivity enhancing. Using a unique plant-level longitudinal … dataset for Colombia for the period 1982-1998 we examine the interaction between market allocation, productivity and …

Understanding the nature and magnitude of resource reallocation, particularly as it relates to productivity growth, is … important both because it affects how we model and interpret aggregate productivity dynamics, and also because market structure … reallocation and productivity dynamics for the U.S. and other countries comes from a single industry: manufacturing. Building upon …

Measured productivity growth increased substantially during the second half of the 1990s. This paper examines whether … productivity growth does appear to arise from an increase in technological change. Cyclical utilization raised measured … productivity growth relative to technology growth in the first part of the expansion, but lowered it subsequently. Factor …

empirically investigate the link between firms' choice of worker mix and the implied relationships between productivity and wages … observable characteristics. (ii) We find that new businesses exhibit even greater heterogeneity in earnings and productivity than … different for earnings and productivity, is consistent both with firms learning as they age and with the exit of mistake' prone …