Unlike economies as a whole, manufacturing industries exhibit unconditional convergence in labor productivity. The …

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 …

productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …

This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant …'s business strategy. We also find that plants sold post-intervention exhibit a significant improvement in productivity under new … increase in labor productivity. Additional tests refute alternative explanations that attribute the improvement to mean …