The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … to US levels, agricultural labor productivity increases by 4.3-7.6 percent, nonagricultural labor productivity decreases …

strategy (from an export-manufacturing based to an innovation-productivity based growth model) is afflicted with higher …

We show theoretically and empirically that standard methods give downward biased estimates of productivity growth if … technical change is factor-biased. We show how to correct for this bias and construct more reliable measures of the productivity …-CES productivity database for the United States over the years 1958–2011. The bias is especially large in the last decade, making our …

productivity gap between firms at the productivity “frontier” (the top 10% within each detailed industry) and medium performers at … the 40-60 percentile of the productivity distribution. The composition of skills, especially the share of high skills …, varies the most along the productivity distribution, but low and medium skilled employees make up a substantial share of the …

especially with regard to time use and cross-productivity with cognition. We find that individuals with higher task effectiveness …

Relying on a unique integrated database, this work explores the relationship between labour productivity, on one side … acknowledging the need to update their knowledge base display a higher productivity vis-à-vis other firms. Second, when it comes to … productivity as compared to other firms. On the contrary, companies characterized by a need in managerial, STEM or humanities …