This paper reviews research that uses longitudinal microdata to document productivity movements and to examine factors … behind productivity growth. The research explores the dispersion of productivity across firms and establishments, the … persistence of productivity differentials, the consequences of entry and exit, and the contribution of resource reallocation …

We document comparative productivity performance since 1870, showing the importance of services for US overtaking of …

first to study the productivity of foreign owned firms relative to UK firms separated into MNEs and non-MNEs. We obtain … three main results. First, the foreign productivity advantage is mostly a multinational advantage: MNEs, foreign and UK, are … more productive than non-MNEs. Second, US owned firms maintain a productivity advantage with respect to both UK and other …

The human capital of a nation is highly correlated to its productivity. Thus, differences in human capital may be seen … as one factor determining the productivity gap between East and West Germany. However, a disadvantage of East Germany …

It is widely believed that international wage differences are a result of international productivity differences. That … productivities.” (Amin 1990, chapter 6) In the estimation of Prebisch, Singer, and Myrdal, “productivity increases that take place in … developed nations are passed on to their workers in the form of higher wages and income, while most or all of the productivity …