This article analyses the effect of labor turnover on the productivity of Brazilian manufacturing firms between 1996 … and 2013. We based our analysis on a theory of learning by doing, where turnover harms productivity by restricting the … measurement that takes into account the loss of human capital-resulting from turnover-and its effect on total factor productivity …

firm heterogeneity to wage inequality. Inspired by sorting theory, we infer firm productivity from estimating firm …-level production functions, taking into account that worker ability and firm productivity may interact at the match level. Using German …, driven by new matches between low-productivity firms and low-ability workers. At the top, sorting decreases, reflected in …