This paper provides technical documentation to accompany the NBER manufacturing productivity (MP) database. The … estimates of total factor productivity (TFP) growth for each industry. The paper further discusses alternate methods of …

engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …

Study of the impact of mergers and acquisitions (M&As) on productivity and market power has been complicated by the … difficulty of separating these two effects. We use newly-developed techniques to separately estimate productivity and markups …-level productivity. We also examine whether M&As increase efficiency through reallocation of production to more efficient plants or …

endogenous firm entry, firm-level productivity, and sectoral employment shares. We find that observed measures of misallocation …

understatement of input growth in manufacturing, and thus. overstatement of growth in productivity. GNP, and value-added in …) improvement in measured manufacturing productivity growth can be attributed to an increase in the rate of foreign and domestic … outsource is unrelated to its acceleration in productivity. In auditing the industry numbers, we found that a non …

sources of the growth of output, labor productivity, and total factor productivity. The results show that resource …

Researchers interested in estimating productivity can choose from an array of methodologies, each with its strengths … evaluate three productivity debates using a panel of manufacturing plants in Colombia. The different methods generate … surprisingly similar results. Correlations between alternative productivity estimates are invariably high. All methods confirm that …

role in increasing productivity growth in U.S. manufacturing. Contemporaneous levels of exports and productivity are indeed … positively correlated across manufacturing industries. However, tests on industry data show causality from productivity to … exporting but not the reverse. While exporting plants have substantially higher productivity levels, we find no evidence that …

We define aggregate productivity growth as the change in aggregate final demand minus the change in the aggregate cost … and sunk costs, and market power. We compare our measure of aggregate productivity growth to several competing variants … differ substantially from these measures of aggregate productivity growth. We illustrate this using panel data from …

to firm innovative performance and to its productivity. The impacts of adoption of the four surveyed KM practices on firm … innovative and productivity performance are not completely accounted by firm size, industry, research & development (R&D) efforts …