values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

"This paper investigates the impacts of cotton marketing reforms on farm productivity, a key element for poverty … productivity in cotton declined. With the improvement of the outgrower scheme of later years, farmers devoted larger shares of land … to cash crops, and farm productivity significantly increased"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site …

because high productivity cities like New York and the San Francisco Bay Area have adopted stringent restrictions to new … housing supply, effectively limiting the number of workers who have access to such high productivity. Using a spatial …

firms earn higher pay at all earnings levels. Second, this pay-productivity relationship strengthens with seniority …, doubling from an elasticity of 0.07 for pay on productivity for the median-paid employee to 0.15 for the top-paid employee … rising productivity can explain 40% of the rise in within-firm inequality since 1980 …

In this paper, we examine the changes in per-capita income and productivity from 1700 to modern times, and show four …

care productivity, we analyze longitudinal data on the medical expenditures and health outcomes of the vast majority of …-profit hospitals have important spillover benefits for medical productivity …

Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is …

One account of spatial concentration focuses on productivity advantages arising from market size. We investigate this … between producers and suppliers of inputs. Productivity links to a more general form of 'market potential' or Marshall …-Arrow-Romer externalities do not appear to be robust in our data. Landlocked status does not matter for productivity of regions in Japan. The …

annual Census Bureau information on 116 pulp and paper mills' vintage, technology, productivity, and pollution abatement … operating costs for 1979-1990. We find a significant negative relationship between pollution abatement costs and productivity … deviation increase in abatement costs is predicted to reduce productivity by 5.4 percent. Older plants appear to have lower …

productivity residuals in the United States and Canada. Using data on 19 manufacturing industries, we study the behavior of … productivity using three proxies for capital services. We find that adjusting for cyclical movements in capital utilization alters … many of the empirical characteristics of productivity, both within and across countries …