markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …

markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and …

John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …

the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the "economic pie" available to the citizens of a country. …

The effect of marriage on productivity and, consequently, wages has been long debated in economics. A primary … explanation for the impact of marriage on wages has been through its impact on productivity, however, there has been no direct … evidence for this. In this paper, we aim to fill this gap by directly measuring the impact of marriage on productivity using a …