' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

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 …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

in China and, to a more limited scale, in the United States in the form of the government's silver purchase programs and …

productivity gains for domestic firms. The size of FDI spillovers is economically important, accounting for about 11% of … productivity growth in U.S. firms between 1987 and 1996. In addition, there is some evidence for imports-related spillovers, but it …

When workers adopt technology at the point where the costs equal the increased productivity, output per worker … increases immediately, while the productivity benefits increase only gradually if the costs continue to fall. As a result …