This paper reviews research that uses longitudinal microdata to document productivity
movements and to examine factors behind productivity growth. The research explores the …

This paper reviews the empirical literature on the effects of offshoring and foreign activities of
multinational enterprises on developed countries' labour markets. Results suggest that …

Long-run growth in many models is the product of two terms: the effective number of
researchers and their research productivity. We present evidence from various industries …

This study treats firm productivity as an accumulation of productive intangibles and posits
that stakeholder engagement associated with better corporate social performance helps …

This book provides a careful historical analysis of the co-evolution of educational attainment
and the wage structure in the United States through the twentieth century. The authors …

This paper studies the impact of a regional free trade agreement, MERCOSUR, on
technology upgrading by Argentinean firms. To guide empirical work, I introduce technology …

We investigate the role of uncertainty in business cycles. First, we demonstrate that
microeconomic uncertainty rises sharply during recessions, including during the Great …

We find that greater institutional ownership is associated with more innovation. To explore
the mechanism, we contrast the “lazy manager” hypothesis with a model where institutional …

Uncertainty appears to jump up after major shocks like the Cuban Missile crisis, the
assassination of JFK, the OPEC I oil‐price shock, and the 9/11 terrorist attacks. This paper …

We use an innovative survey tool to collect management practice data from 732 medium-
sized firms in the United States, France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. These …