Year: 2012
Type: report
Abstract: Productivity improvements within establishments (e.g., factories, mines, or retail stores) are an important source of aggregate productivity growth.Past research has documented that learning by doing-productivity improvements that occur in concert with production increases-is one source of such improvements.Yet little is known about the specific mechanisms through which such learning occurs.We address this question using extremely detailed data from an assembly plant of a major auto producer.Beyond showing that there is rapid learning by doing at the plant, we are able to pinpoint the processes by which these improvements have occurred.
DOI: 10.3386/w18017
Authors: Steven Levitt, John List, Chad Syverson
Language: English
Subfield: Economics and Econometrics
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2101435405