Plant shutdowns shape industry productivity, the dynamics of employment, and industrial restructuring. Plant closures …

Plant shutdowns shape industry productivity, the dynamics of employment, and industrial restructuring. Plant closures …

, productivity, geography, and plant characteristics are considered. The probability of shutdowns is higher in industries that face …

, measured firm productivity will reflect both true differences in productivity and non-random decisions about which products to … to characterize the direction and magnitude of the resulting bias in productivity and to trace the implications for … provides a new source of reallocation and leads to biased measures of deregulation’s impact on firm and aggregate productivity …

to non-exporters. Employment, shipments, wages, productivity and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any … survival are both higher for exporters; however, productivity and wage growth is not superior, particularly over longer …

variation in factor productivity. We implement this method using data on the relative wage bills of non-production and …

This paper develops a general test of factor price equalization that is robust to unobserved regional productivity …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …