consequences for aggregate labor productivity. Using high-quality administrative data from Germany, we document that East German … data predicts ten percent lower aggregate labor productivity in East Germany …

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor … productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to … disentangle the relationship between pay and productivity. …

Conventional theory predicts that productivity gains lead to pay hikes. Pay increases, however, can influence labor … productivity. But what about in a corporatist economy? Focusing on Germany, we use an innovative technique developed by Geweke to … disentangle the relationship between pay and productivity …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …