consistently that the introduction of a PSP or a TIP will lead to a significant increase in productivity (about 10 percent) whereas … no such evidence found for ESOPs or SOPs. We also find that the productivity payoff appears to be more long-lasting for … complements in their productivity effects. …

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity growth. It also reviews how workers affected by labour … labour market flows and these flows, in turn, have significant impacts on productivity growth. At the same time, the evidence …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual basis for such measures, provide some historical examples, and then …

to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …

economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is … export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …