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 …

ABSTRACT A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide-range of benefits
that extend beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can …

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM)
and productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non …

During economic crises, governments often increase fiscal spending to stimulate the
economy. While the fiscal spending surge may be temporary, spending composition is often …

Using geological variation in oil abundance in the Southern US, I examine the long term
effects of resource‐based specialisation through economic channels. In 1890 oil abundant …

We overview the use of field experiments in labor economics. We showcase studies that
highlight the central advantages of this methodology, which include:(i) using economic …

Do agglomerations stimulate productivity? An extensive literature on agglomeration
economies, or urban increasing returns, has analyzed this question with aggregated spatial …

We investigate the role of education on worker productivity and firms' total factor productivity
using a panel of firm-level data from China. We estimate the returns to education by …

The paper discusses the standard approaches in constructing the spatial weights matrix, W,
and the implications of using such approaches in terms of the potential mis-specification of …

A growing body of work suggests that education offers a wide range of benefits that extend
beyond increases in labor market productivity. Improvements in education can lower crime …