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Bloom, Nicholas; Iacovone, Leonardo; Pereira-López, Mariana - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of greater misallocation in Mexico is the weaker...

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Do Well Managed Firms Make Better Forecasts?

Bloom, Nicholas; Kawakubo, Takafumi; Meng, Charlotte; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services. There is a large variation in management practices, which are highly correlated with productivity, profitability and size. Uniquely, the survey collects firms' micro forecasts of...

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2010

In this handbook of labor economics chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and … productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … as matching (hiring and firing) and work organization (e.g. teams, autonomy). We place HRM more generally within the …

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Do Management Interventions Last? Evidence from India

Bloom, Nicholas - 2018

Beginning in 2008, we ran a randomized controlled trial that changed management practices in a set of Indian weaving firms (Bloom et al. 2013). In 2017 we revisited the plants and found three main results. First, while about half of the management practices adopted in the original experimental...

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The Impact of COVID-19 on US Firms

Bloom, Nicholas; Fletcher, Robert S.; Yeh, Ethan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We use survey data on an opt-in panel of around 2,500 US small businesses to assess the impact of COVID-19. We find a significant negative sales impact that peaked in Quarter 2 of 2020, with an average loss of 29% in sales. The large negative impact masks significant heterogeneity, with over 40%...

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