A significant amount of work time is lost each year due to worker absence, but evidence on the productivity losses from …. Our analysis indicates that worker absences have large negative impacts: the expected loss in daily productivity from … employing a temporary substitute is on par with replacing a regular worker of average productivity with one at the 10th-20th …

increased use of PTCA appears to be a productivity improvement. PTCAs that substitute for CABG cost less and have the same or …

Firms are key to economic development, and CEOs are key to firm productivity. Are firms in countries at varying stages …, resulting in mismatches that can cause up to a 20% loss in productivity for the mismatched firms. The findings imply that …

, explaining 31% of productivity dispersion and over half of the agricultural productivity gap. The sophistication of widely used … technologies is more relevant for productivity than the most advanced technologies. More sophisticated technologies are appropriate …

We document a Kuznets curve for construction productivity in 20th-century America. Homes built per construction worker … remained stagnant between 1900 and 1940, boomed after World War II, and then plummeted after 1970. The productivity boom from … consistent with an extensive series of key facts about the nature of the construction sector. The post-1970 productivity decline …

We quantify the aggregate, regional and sectoral impacts of transportation productivity growth on the US economy over … as a key input to interregional trade, we find that the calibrated change in transportation productivity had a sizable …

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

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

productivity growth at the aggregate and firm level during the post-war period. Growth is driven by the development of both (i … variance of aggregate productivity growth is determined mainly by the arrival rate of general innovations. Ceteris paribus, the … increase in firm-level volatility, and a decline in aggregate volatility. The effect on productivity growth is ambiguous. On …