What Determines Productivity

By Chad Syverson. 2011

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Productivity growth in Italy: a tale of a slow-motion change (2018, positive): “…the output elasticities of the production function using a control function approach (Levinsohn & Petrin, 2003; Olley & Pakes, 1996) and then recover productivity as a residual: = − − − where lower case denotes logs (see Syverson (2011) for a survey of the literature on productivity estimation).”
Capitalists in the Twenty-First Century* (2019, neutral): “…variation in profitability and links firm performance and wage inequality (Hall 1988; Foster, Haltiwanger, and Syverson 2008; Hsieh and Klenow 2009; Syverson 2011; Abowd, Kramarz, and Margolis 1999; Card, Heining, and Kline 2013; Song et al. 2019) as opposed to income inequality, which includes…”
Temperature Effects on Productivity and Factor Reallocation: Evidence from a Half Million Chinese Manufacturing Plants (2018, methodology): “As a further robustness check, column (3) estimates the same model as in column (1d) but uses a TFP measure constructed following the index number approach (Syverson, 2011).”
Generative AI at Work (2023, neutral): “…one of the highest surveyed rates of AI adoption.11 Customer support interactions are important for maintaining a company’s reputation and building strong customer relationships, yet, as in many industries, there is substantial variation in worker productivity (Berg et al., 2018; Syverson, 2011).”
Deregulation, Consolidation, and Efficiency: Evidence from U.S. Nuclear Power (2012, background): “See Syverson (2011) for a recent survey.”
Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters (2013, background): “Likewise, as noted in Syverson (2011), these aggregate comparisons do not identify the particular sources driving the distortions.”
How can micro and small enterprises in Sub-Saharan Africa become more productive? the impacts of experimental basic managerial training (2011, background): “Management has been increasingly recognized as a major determinant of productivity in the recent economics literature (e.g., Syverson, 2010).”