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Cultural Diversity and Plant‐Level Productivity
cultural diversity plant-level productivity knowledge spillovers
2012/10/22
Using comprehensive data for German establishments (1999-2008), we estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity. We distinguish divers...
Measuring the Relative Productivity of Multitasking to Sole-tasking in Household Production: New Experimental Evidence
experiment household production child care time use productivity measures
2012/10/23
We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We ...
Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
continuous vocational training labor productivity growth
2012/10/19
In this paper we show that vocational training is an important determinant of productivity growth. We construct a multi-country, multi-sectoral dataset, and quantify empirically to what extent vocatio...
Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
development labor productivity labor productivity growth provinces China
2012/10/17
As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources of labor productivity has gradually come to the forefront. This paper studies the...
Distortions, Endogenous Managerial Skills and Productivity Differences
distortions size skill investments productivity differences
2012/10/23
We develop a span-of-control model where managerial skills are endogenous and the outcome of investments over the life cycle of managers. We calibrate this model to U.S plant-size data to quantify the...
Productivity Gains and Spillovers from Offshoring
offshoring productivity spillovers manufacturing and services gmm
2012/10/26
Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This article contributes to the growing literature that tests empirically whether offsh...
Productivity, Wages, and Marriage: The Case of Major League Baseball
marriage premium wage gap productivity baseball
2012/10/30
Using a sample of professional baseball players from 1871–2007, this paper aims at analyzing a longstanding empirical observation that married men earn significantly more than their single counterpart...
Heterogeneous Productivity in Voluntary Public Good Provision: An Experimental Analysis
public goods voluntary contribut ion mechanism heterogeneity information norms
2012/10/31
This article experimentally examines voluntary contributions when group members' marginal returns to the public good vary. The experiment implements two marginal return types, low and high, and uses t...
The Transatlantic Productivity Gap: Is R&D the Main Culprit?
R&D productivity embodied technological change US EU
2012/10/31
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 productivit...
Does Anti-Competitive Regulation Matter for Productivity? Evidence from European Firms
total factor productivity firm -level data product market regulation
2012/11/1
Using firm-level data for a sample of European countries, we focus on the effects that product-market regulations have on firm-level TFP growth. We proxy regulatory burdens using the OECD indicators o...
Got Technology? The Impact of Computers and Cell Phones on Productivity in a Difficult Business Climate: Evidence from Firms with Female Owners in Kenya
technology computers cell-phones business obstacles Kenya firms female owners
2012/11/2
Firms in Kenya rely on technologies such as computers, cell-phones, and generators to overcome constraints associated with regulations, infrastructure, security, workforce, corruption, and finance. Th...
Is Part-Time Employment Beneficial for Firm Productivity?
heterogeneous labor matched employer-employee data allocation of labor timing of labor demand
2012/11/2
This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a unique dataset on the Dutch pharmacy sector that includes the work hours of all empl...
Nonmanufacturing industry contributions to multifactor productivity, 1987?006
Nonmanufacturing industry multifactor productivity
2010/11/29
To overcome data deficiencies in measuring trends in U.S. nonmanufacturing productivity, the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the Bureau of Economic Analysis, and the Census Bureau have expanded and improv...
Effects of imported intermediate inputs on productivity
Effects imported intermediate inputs productivity
2010/11/29
A framework for estimating the effects of imported intermediate inputs on U.S. major-sector labor productivity is used together with the Solow multifactor productivity equation to show that private bu...
The Productivity Consequences of Two Ergonomic Interventions
The Productivity Consequences Two Ergonomic Interventions
2009/11/5
Pre- and post-intervention data on health outcomes, absenteeism, and productivity from a longitudinal, quasi-experimental design field study of office workers was used to evaluate the economic consequ...