In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

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 …

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 …

Production capital and technology, fundamental to understanding output and productivity growth, are unobserved except … of capital and technology for the sample period. We apply the method to annual data from 1947-97 for U.S. total …

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal … data, we find evidence that high-performance workplace practices are associated with both higher productivity and higher … and the productivity of establishments. We find that firms re-engineer their workplaces and incorporate` more high …

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 …

We examine the relationship between lax monetary policy, access to high-yield bond markets and productivity in the US … higher risk profile. Since the relationship between credit ratings and firm-level productivity is U-shaped, the aggregate … effect on productivity is a priori unclear. Turning to the real economy, we thus analyse whether this additional access to …