Understanding Productivity: Lessons from Longitudinal Microdata
综述了利用纵向微观数据研究生产率变动与增长因素的研究，揭示了企业间生产率差异、资源重新配置对总体生产率增长的贡献，以及管理能力、技术使用、人力资本和监管等因素的相关性。
This paper reviews research that uses longitudinal microdata to document productivity movements and to examine factors behind productivity growth. The research explores the dispersion of productivity across firms and establishments, the persistence of productivity differentials, the consequences of entry and exit, and the contribution of resource reallocation across firms to aggregate productivity growth. The research also reveals important factors correlated with productivity growth, such as managerial ability, technology use, human capital, and regulation. The more advanced literature in the field has begun to address the more difficult questions of the causality between these factors and productivity growth.