establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. …We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of …

total factor productivity and by the capital stock per capita. These variables suffice to calculate welfare changes within a … the degree of market competition. It applies to open economies as well, if total factor productivity is constructed using … productivity be constructed with prices and quantities as perceived by consumers, not firms. Thus, factor shares need to be …

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. …We analyze the welfare cost of inflation in a model with cash-in-advance constraints and an endogenous distribution of …

recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …