unionism and productivity and discusses its implications for future research on more general issues. The main focus is on (I …) conclusions as to whether unions raise or lower productivity and (2) procedures used to identify the channels through which unions … affect productivity. The studies of unions and productivity have documented large productivity differences between seemingly …

We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …

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 …

-health" endpoints, including labor productivity, cognitive performance, and multiple forms of decision making. Subclinical effects of …

, R and D indexes account for most of the explanatory power. Indexes of (Jorgenson type) productivity growth and of …

Understanding how productivity varies with age is important for a variety of reasons. A decline in productivity with … productivity. A third implication is that, absent government intervention, employers may not be willing to hire the elderly for the … same compensation as younger workers. Labor economists are particularly interested in the relationship of productivity and …

How worker productivity evolves with tenure and experience is central to economics, shaping, for example, life …-cycle earnings and the losses from involuntary job separation. Yet, worker-level productivity is hard to identify from observational … data. This paper introduces direct measurement of worker productivity in a firm survey designed to separate the role of on …