In the U.S., some sectoral evidence suggests that growth is driven mainly by productivity enhancing reallocation. In … developing countries, an open question is whether reallocation is productivity enhancing. Using a unique plant-level longitudinal … dataset for Colombia for the period 1982-1998 we examine the interaction between market allocation, productivity and …

empirically investigate the link between firms' choice of worker mix and the implied relationships between productivity and wages … observable characteristics. (ii) We find that new businesses exhibit even greater heterogeneity in earnings and productivity than … different for earnings and productivity, is consistent both with firms learning as they age and with the exit of mistake' prone …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …

In this paper, we exploit establishment-level data to examine the relationship between microeconomic productivity … dynamics and aggregate productivity growth. After synthesizing the evidence from recent studies, we conduct our own analysis … establishments plays a significant role in accounting for aggregate productivity growth; (ii) for the selected service industries …

This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government … Computer Productivity Paradox as it applies to the public sector. Computers do not appear to be responsible for the … disappointing productivity performance of the service sector. Although the magnitude of our estimated elasticity suggests that the …

The conventional wisdom is that the rising productivity in the U.S. manufacturing sector in the 1980s has been driven … the rise in productivity. In this paper, we examine the microeconomic evidence using the plant level data from the … as productivity contribute almost as much to overall productivity growth in the 1980s as the plants that increased …

This paper extends previous research on the effect of investment on labor productivity at the country level by … to have a significant positive effect on productivity. Moreover, this effect appears to be quite large. The estimated …

operated. using plant-level Census Bureau data, we show that productivity is inversely related to the degree of diversification …, the lower the productivity of its plants. Hence de-diversification is one of the means by which recent takeovers have … contributed to U.S. productivity growth. We also find that the effectiveness of regulations governing disclosure by companies of …