productivity across industries. Using our constructed measure of adaptability to social distancing, we empirically find that … industries that are more adaptive to social distancing had less decline in employment and productivity during the pandemic. Using … this empirical evidence, our model predicts that employment and productivity dispersion would induce labor reallocation …

To what degree can labor reallocation mitigate the economic consequences of weather-driven agricultural productivity … a key role in attenuating the economic consequences of agricultural productivity shocks. Exploiting firm-level variation …

legislation may reduce not only job destruction but also job creation, hindering the efficient allocation of labor and … productivity growth. …

This paper develops a three-sector model to analysis the mechanism of cross sectoral labor reallocation in China over … the period of 1978–2011. The model incorporates factors of sectoral differences in productivity, non-homothetic preference …