What determines productivity?
By: Chad Syverson.
Contributors: National Bureau of Economic Research.
Series: NBER working paper series -- working paper 15712; Working paper series (National Bureau of Economic Research : Online) -- working paper no. 15712.
Publisher: National Bureau of Economic Research
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Format: Electronic resource
Description: "Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous.  This finding has shaped research agendas in a number of fields, including (but not limited to) macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor, and trade.  This paper surveys and evaluates recent empirical work addressing the question of why businesses differ in their measured productivity levels.  The causes are manifold, and differ depending on the particular setting.  They include elements sourced in production practices-and therefore over which producers have some direct control, at least in theory-as well as from producers' external operating environments.  After evaluating the current state of knowledge, I lay out what I see are the major questions that research in the area should address going forward"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site.
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