Showing 1 - 10 of 5,602
growth has largely kept pace with private sector real output growth, that productivity growth has been much higher, and that … result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however …, the apparently robust growth in manufacturing real output and productivity have been driven by a relatively small industry …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011857530
This paper investigates how rms' productivity is a ected by the relationship between organiza- tional practices and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012225034
important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412738
Why do some leaders succeed while others fail? This question is important, but its complexity makes it hard to study systematically. We examine an industry in which there are well-defined objectives, small teams, and exact measures of leaders' characteristics. We show that a strong predictor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268751
that over time, either firms learn about worker productivity but productivity remains fixed or workers' productivities … importance. We derive a dynamic model of learning and productivity that nests both models and allows them to coexist. We estimate … correlates of productivity, as opposed to the empirical evidence on employer learning which uses one fixed measure. Second, we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010272657
Why do employed persons in large firms earn more than employed persons in small firms, even after controlling for observable characteristics? Complementary to previous results, this paper proposes a mechanism that gives an answer to this question. In the model, individuals accumulate human...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279870
This paper analyzes the differences in wage ratios of university graduates to less than university graduates, the education premium, in Canada and the United States from 1980 to 2000. Both countries experienced a similar increase in the fraction of university graduates and a similar increase in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280031
We examine the relationship between human capital and economic activity in U.S. metropolitan areas, extending the literature in two ways. First, we utilize new data on metropolitan area GDP to measure economic activity. Results show that a one-percentage-point increase in the proportion of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010283514
In this paper, we decompose aggregate labor productivity growth in order to gauge the relative importance of … refers to the U.S. activities of multinational corporations operating in the United States. We develop productivity estimates … Analysis and (2) productivity data for industries and major sectors from the FRB productivity system (Bartelsman and Beaulieu …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014049084
-factor productivity (TFP) growth for U.S. states over 1980 to 2010. Our growth accounting exercise shows that the current literature … considerably lower in magnitude when compared to the earlier studies. Productivity growth effects associated with high school …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948192