Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

occurred in Finland in the early 1990s. We find that the sharp drop in real GDP over the period 1990-93 was driven by a … combination of a drop in total factor productivity (TFP) during 1990-92 and of increases in taxes on labor and consumption and … increases in government consumption during 1989-94, which drove down hours worked in Finland. We attempt to endogenize the drop …

. Although we find that direct reforms improve medical productivity primarily by reducing malpractice claims rates and …

little or no incremental value. In this paper, we draw on macroeconomic models of diffusion and productivity to better … differences in the propensity to adopt technology can lead to wide and persistent productivity differences across countries -- or … productivity, and swamp the impact of traditional factor inputs. Holding technology constant, the marginal gains from spending on …

is difficult to measure and potentially confounded with productivity. Rather than relying on clinical or process measures … decompose the joint contribution of quality and unobserved productivity to hospital costs, relying on heterogeneous tastes among … productivity differences. After accounting for these differences, we find that a quality improvement from the 25th percentile to …

manufacturing productivity growth. Other research has suggested that, over the long run, growth in the U.S. economy's 'health output …