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

Toward understanding assortative matching, this is a self-contained introduction to research
on search and matching. We first explore the nontransferable and perfectly transferable …

We study the role of establishment-specific wage premiums in generating recent increases
in West German wage inequality. Models with additive fixed effects for workers and …

We analyze the relationship between inequality and economic growth from two directions.
The first part of the survey examines the effect of inequality on growth, showing that when …

This paper proposes a new mechanism linking trade and wage inequality in develo**
countries—the quality-upgrading mechanism—and investigates its empirical implications in …

We use a massive, matched employer-employee database for the United States to analyze
the contribution of firms to the rise in earnings inequality from 1978 to 2013. We find that one …

This paper explores the theoretical and empirical literature to examine the use by different
social groups of informal sources of information provided by friends, relatives, and …

This paper investigates the determination and consequences of organizational changes
(OC) in a panel of British and French establishments. Organizational changes include the …

Over the past 30 years, the share of adult populations with college degrees increased more
in cities with higher initial schooling levels than in initially less educated places. This …

We investigate the relation between firm performance and boardroom gender diversity using
quantile regression methods. Using annual data on over 3000 US firms from 2007 to 2014 …