evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …

classes. Four tests leveraging firm stayers and movers, occupation and industry switchers, hiring wages, and displaced workers …

The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …

factor productivity growth-particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …

-segment variation of the estimated effects is mostly driven by firm productivity levels rather than by search frictions or the …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

setting wages and determining work amenities. In the administrative data, we causally examine through which channels unions … depending on the age at which workers enroll. In addition, we show that focusing on a restricted set of outcomes, such as wages …