. The firm data are informative on labor productivity. The matched data provide the skill composition in different markets …. Together this allows us to investigate how the mean difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

data on firm-level productivity, employment growth and firm survival, we argue that these approaches are also suitable for …

We quantify the causal effect of foreign investment on total factor productivity (TFP) using a new global firm … domestic firms, we calculate the aggregate impact of foreign investment on country-level productivity growth and find it to be …

We hypothesize, and test for, a negative effect of the length of the commute on worker’s productivity, by examining …

This paper focuses on the relation between worker's productivity and retirement decision. Assuming that productivity … follows geometric Brownian motion with drift, there exists such a level of productivity for which it is optimal to retire. The … productivity and the probability of retirement. …

productivity growth. This exercise reveals that international capital flows are mainly shaped by government decisions and sovereign … aid flows, which are mostly accounted as debt, are also positively correlated with productivity growth consistent with the …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

simultaneity bias in productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms’ TFP are …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important—but specific—function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …