Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

fields that standard measures of productivity – like output per worker or total factor productivity – vary substantially … productivity across firms mirror the trends in the wage inequality across workers. Two distinct literatures have searched for a … productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to more and …