decomposition of total factor productivity growth …

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 …

time. A key question is, has the productivity distribution also spread out across worker skill levels over time? Using our … calculations of productivity by skill level for the U.S., we show that the distributions of both wages and productivity have spread … out over time, as the right tail lengthens for both. We add OECD countries, showing that the wage-productivity correlation …

) definition of aggregate productivity growth, which aggregates plant-level changes to changes in aggregate final demand in the … technologies, one for each 4-digit SIC code. On average we find positive aggregate productivity growth of 2.2% in this sector … for both the theoretical literature on growth and alternative indexes of aggregate productivity growth based only on …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

explore the overall productivity gains associated with these changes in production methods and the specific, causal role of … remarkable gain in labor productivity. We also present OLS and IV estimates of the effects of using inanimate power, such as …. Treating our IV estimates as causal, about one-third of the higher productivity of machine labor is attributed to greater use …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …

Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study … uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity … rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately two-fifths of the productivity rebound occurring in New Economy …

How will a nation's aggregate urban productivity be affected by climate change? The joint distribution of climate … heterogeneous firms within an industry. Our analysis suggests that high productivity firms are more likely to adopt AC since they … suffer larger productivity losses when it is hot. Given that the most productive firms produce a disproportionate share of …