Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study … uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity … rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately two-fifths of the productivity rebound occurring in New Economy …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …

. These findings suggest that small groups provide productivity gains over large groups. Further, they suggest that the lack …

worker productivity in the facility. Using a natural field experiment, we report several insights. For example, conditional … incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more …%: that is, total team productivity is enhanced by 1% purely due to the framing manipulation. Importantly, we find that …

marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate … developed countries follows a distinct pattern. On the one hand, wage premiums exceed productivity premiums for general human … capital characteristics (tenure and training), even though these have a clear productivity effect …

that average productivity rises, that the firm will attract a more able work force and that the variance in output across … structures between 1994 and 1995. All theoretical predictions are borne out. In the firm examined, the productivity effects are … worker-specific increase in productivity is passed on to workers in the form of higher wages …

Economists' productivity, as measured by publication in leading journals, declines very sharply with age. Additional … of acceptance does show increasing heterogeneity with age that is related to the author's quality, consistent with models …

productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …