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Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - 2017

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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Productivity, investment in ICT and market experimentation : micro evidence from Germany und the US

Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; Schank, Thorsten - 2003

This paper examines the relationship between the use of advanced technologies such as ICT, and outcomes such as productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that U.S. businesses engage in experimentation in a...

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Changing business dynamism and productivity : shocks vs. responsiveness

Decker, Ryan A.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; … - 2018

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Changing business dynamism and productivity : shocks vs. responsiveness

Decker, Ryan A.; Haltiwanger, John C.; Jarmin, Ronald S.; … - 2018

The pace of job reallocation has declined in all U.S. sectors since 2000. In standard models, aggregate job reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal responsiveness of businesses to those shocks. Using several novel...

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