This paper investigates an alternative proxy for individual worker productivity in physical work settings: a direct … daily productivity obtained from firm personnel data, with physical activity; they are strongly related. Second, the paper …

The paper addresses the topic of an overall long-term productivity slowdown in labor productivity for a panel of 25 …-term productivity trends using state-space approaches, we extract a common factor from these long-term trend series using factor … analysis. The country specific differences are only of second order importance. Dominant is an overall long-term productivity …

Productivity growth is a key determinant of improvements in living standards in the long run. However, analysis of … productivity trends at the aggregate level does not capture the variation of firm and sub-industry productivity performance that … underlies industry or aggregate productivity. By examining the differences in productivity performance of firms in particular …

Measuring the dispersion of productivity or efficiency across firms in a market or industry is rife with methodological … to increase dispersion. This chapter presents a guide to measurement of dispersion and provides empirical evidence from a …

-sector productivity growth. Third, other measurement issues we can quantify (such as increasing globalization and fracking) are also …After 2004, measured growth in labor productivity and total-factor productivity (TFP) slowed. We find little evidence … quantitative effect on productivity was larger in the 1995-2004 period than since, despite mismeasurement worsening for some types …