productivity across industries. Using our constructed measure of adaptability to social distancing, we empirically find that … industries that are more adaptive to social distancing had less decline in employment and productivity during the pandemic. Using … this empirical evidence, our model predicts that employment and productivity dispersion would induce labor reallocation …

process thus fosters firm creation and improves aggregate productivity. It also complements policies that stimulate firm entry …

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

spillovers on firm-level productivity are extensively studied in applied work, but not in the context of resource misallocation …