. While most international accounts find that diversity reduces productivity, I argue that the U.S. experience is more nuanced …. Unqualified statements about the costs and merits of diversity are unwarranted, as racial heterogeneity increases productivity …

Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study … uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity … rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately two-fifths of the productivity rebound occurring in New Economy …

Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important … source of productivity growth. An equilibrium model of growth and firm evolution designed to clarify the role of worker … productivity found in Danish firm data. Conditions under which the reallocation of workers from less to more productive firms …

Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study … uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity … rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately two-fifths of the productivity rebound occurring in New Economy …

Recent growth accelerations in Africa are characterized by increasing productivity in agriculture, a declining share of … the labor force employed in agriculture and declining productivity in modern sectors such as manufacturing. To shed light … larger firms that exhibit superior productivity performance but do not expand employment much, and small firms that absorb …