-house confers a sector-neutral productivity advantage facilitating within-firm structural transformation. Consistent with the model …

endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

decomposition of total factor productivity growth …

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 …

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 …

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 …

create more productive jobs for those that are already stuck in petty services. Raising productivity in services has been …