In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning … that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer …

productivity among these sectors. The increasing implementation and imports of ICT technologies, the growing demand for ICT … erhöht hat. Durch die zunehmende Implementierung und die Importe von IKT, den wachsenden Bedarf nach qualifizierten IKT-Humankapital …

forexogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are statevariables, and productivity follows a …

We analyze a large stratified random sample of firms that provide us with measures ofperformance and each firm’s top …

productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivityadvances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per …

Using micro-level panel data of about 35,000 firms from the German Cost StructureCensus, we analyze the differences of … technical efficiency across industries. Technicalefficiency is estimated by firms’ fixed effects. One striking result is that … is truncated at the lower end due to the least efficient firms which exit themarket. We investigate the causes of …

During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor … productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption … and integration into the workforce of highly skilled immigrants from the former Soviet Union... …

idiosyncraticproductivities and update productivity beliefs using information revealed by their productionexperience. The estimator relies on the … industry. Estimation of productivity dynamics and of behavioraldecision rules are separated into recursive stages. Using … plausible estimates with small standard errors. Decision ruleestimates show that productivity beliefs affect investment and exit …

leading to productivity dispersion... …