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 …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

impact on post-entry size, survival, and productivity of startups. Consistent with our organizational capital hypothesis …

Within-industry differences in measured plant-level productivity are large. A large literature has been devoted to … classification and regression trees. We use our imputations and the Bureau's imputations to estimate within-industry productivity … dispersions. The results suggest that there is more within-industry productivity dispersion than previous research has indicated …

shocks as well as both individual-level and firm-level productivity metrics. We find that human capital exits firms after a … their long-term productivity. They get replaced with lower productivity players. Overall, our results show that in a setting … towards a better overall match between individual-level and firm-level productivity …

differences between national or regional productivity growth rates, when there are constant static returns to scale in production … account for permanent international productivity growth differentials. An alternative mechanism is the nontradedness of an …