productivity parameter, class size is a component of school quality, households are heterogeneous in income and hence willingness …

transitions, and this allows for estimation of the degree of search frictions. The firm data are informative on labor productivity … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …

switch to salary firms once their productivity is revealed. The magnitude of the resulting worker flows depends on the payoff …. Advantages in measuring worker productivity constitute a plausible explanation for the emergence of specialized business related …

step we elicit subjects’ productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …

-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …