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What Determines Productivity?
Journal of Economic Literature 2011, 49:2, 326 365. What Determines productivity ? Chad Syverson*. Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous. This finding has shaped research agendas in a num- ber of fields, including (but not limited to) macroeconomics, industrial organization, labor, and trade. This paper surveys and evaluates recent empirical work address- ing the question of why businesses differ in their measured productivity levels. The causes are manifold, and differ depending on the particular setting. They include ele- ments sourced in production practices and therefore over which producers have some direct control, at least in theory as well as from producers' external operat- ing environments.
Jonas D. M. Fisher 2004, Eric J. Bartelsman, Haltiwanger, and Stefano Scarpetta 2009, and Marcelo Veracierto 2008). Micro pro-ductivity data have also been brought to bear on issues of long-run growth, income conver - gence, and technology spillovers. They offer a …
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