We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

reallocation. A distinct literature describes a slowdown in the pace of aggregate labor productivity growth. We relate these … patterns by studying changes in productivity growth from the late 1990s to the mid 2000s using firm-level data. We find that … diminished allocative efficiency gains can account for the productivity slowdown in a manner that interacts with the within …

reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal … marginal responsiveness of employment growth to business-level productivity has weakened. The responsiveness in the post-2000 … in the 1990s. Counterfactuals show that weakening productivity responsiveness since 2000 accounts for a significant drag …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts:productivity, demand shocks, mark … impact of productivity, and other marketfundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the distribution … productivity of incumbentplants and improves the allocation of activity within industries.... …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

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

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …

. Labor productivity rises 8% at targets over two years post buyout (again, relative to controls), with large gains for both … public-to-private and private-to-private buyouts. Target productivity gains are larger yet for deals executed amidst tight … sharply curtails productivity gains in public-to-private and divisional buy-outs. Average earnings per worker fall by 1.7% at …