Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …

The effects of private equity buyouts on employment, productivity, and job reallocation vary tremendously with … relative to control firms - but expands 13% after buyouts of privately held firms. Post-buyout productivity gains at target …

Understanding the causes of the slowdown in aggregate productivity growth is key to maintaining the competitiveness of … Knowledge-Based Capital (KBC), despite having a positive effect on productivity at the micro level, is a driver of the weak … productivity performance at the aggregate level, by accentuating divergence between a group of "frontier" firms and the rest of the …

This paper investigates the determinants of the productivity of independent retail stores in Sweden by focusing on the … located in central and non-central markets respectively. The results show an approximately 10 percent higher productivity … markets. The findings also show that employee characteristics do not contribute to the productivity of stores in central …

This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries … fragmentation and productivity, and represents the first empirical analysis of how metropolitan governance structures affect this … previous literature, the analysis confirms that city productivity tends to increase with city size; doubling city size is found …

ability to absorb external knowledge in explaining innovation productivity for US metropolitan areas. Our measure of … absorptive capacity, derived from a knowledge flow model, has a positive and significant impact on innovation productivity. We …

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 …

This paper examines the role of skilled labor in the growth of total factor productivity. We use panel data from … manufacturing industries to assess the extent to which productivity growth in yearly cross section is tied to industry shares of … skilled labor inputs. We find robust evidence that productivity growth was increasingly concentrated in high-skill industries …