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firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority …, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for the median-paid employee to 0.15 for the top-paid employee … rising productivity can explain 40% of the rise in within-firm inequality since 1980 …
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impact on post-entry size, survival, and productivity of startups. Consistent with our organizational capital hypothesis …
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factors affect research production during the pandemic. Consistent with the literature, research productivity falls more for …) negatively affects research productivity. Also novel are the results that concerns about feedback, isolation, and health have …
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Species extinctions and ecological degradation are accelerating to a degree unprecedented in human history. We present causal evidence on the economic drivers of biodiversity loss using a novel panel dataset on the types and quantities of wildlife at thousands of locations across the U.S. from...
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We study the productivity-pay relationship in the United States and Canada along two dimensions. The first is … divergence: the degree to which the levels of productivity and pay have diverged. The second is delinkage: the degree to which … incremental increases in the rate of productivity growth translate into incremental increases in the rate of growth of pay …
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service for all Americans ("universal access") would raise earnings-weighted labor productivity by an estimated 1.1% in the … would raise productivity, and it would promote greater economic and social resilience during future disasters that inhibit …
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Why do cities differ so much in productivity? Using a split-sample IV strategy, we document that up to three quarters … of the large measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects the "luck of the draw" of … their productivity is only imperfectly correlated with that of older plants, which dominate measured productivity levels …
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Racial social isolation within and across workplaces may reduce firm productivity. We provide descriptive evidence that … African-Americans feel socially isolated from Whites. To test whether isolation affects productivity, we estimate models of … Total Factor Productivity for manufacturing firms allowing returns to local area concentrations of economic activity and …
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This paper studies competing sources of declining dynamism. Evidence shows that an important component of this decline is accounted for by the reduction in the response of employment to shocks in US establishments. Using a plant level dynamic optimization problem as a framework for analysis,...
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Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences … share of the variance of store-level productivity; (ii) negative assortative matching between managers and stores, which may … productivity also tend to obtain high energy productivity, revealing some breadth in managers' skills applicability; (vii) high …
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