productivity (TFP) using newly organized data on 145 countries that span more than one hundred years for twenty-four of these …

This paper analyzes the economic impact of unions on productivity in the manufacturing sector across six Latin American … paper finds that unions have positive, but mostly small, effects on productivity, with the exception of Argentina, with a … productivity effects barely offset higher union compensation, and that unions are negatively related to investment in capital and R …

The effect of marriage on productivity and wages has been long debated. A difficulty in estimating the effect of … marriage on productivity is the lack of data that contain measures of both marital status and exogenous productivity. We fill … between individual measures of productivity and marriage, yet, wages are up to 15 percent higher for some married players. We …

We characterize the dispersion of firm-level productivity and demand shocks over the business cycle using Swedish … than productivity dispersion in recessions. Productivity shocks pass through incompletely to prices and have limited effect … and see" channel. Productivity dispersion does not generate "wait and see" effects, but affects output negatively by …

education, and in consequence, inequality increases. We also show that wages and productivity gaps between high-tech and low …-tech sectors are fueled by the elitism gap in higher education. This leads to heterogeneity in human capital, and therefore to an …