data from Thailand's manufacturing sector which experienced unilateral home tariff changes during 2003-2006. …

We estimate the impacts of the Climate Change Levy (CCL) on manufacturing plants using panel data from the UK …

TFP. We interviewed managers of 190 randomly selected manufacturing plants in the UK and matched their responses with …

of 104 UK manufacturing firms. Hypotheses are drawn from aresource-based perspective on human resource management and a …

aggregation problem introduces a bias into standard measures of firm productivity. We develop a theoretical model of heterogeneous …

productivity. The "Solow Paradox" of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …

If the presence of a union in a workplace or firm raises the pay level, unless productivity rises correspondingly … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This … to use theory to predict unambiguously any union effect on productivity because unions can both enhance and detract from …

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of …

Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second … 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm, these effects can be measured and separated. For this firm, most … of the gain in productivity during the recession was a result of increased effort. Additionally, the increase in effort …