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 … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

We study the impact of and reward to middle management ability using data from 245 stores of a nationwide retailer. The … company scores six broad areas of management practice, the most important of which turns out to be "commercial awareness …", where able managers raise labour productivity by 17% compared to less able. We show that the managers' incentive scheme is …

suggests that the phenomena of comparison and habituation are actually found in a considerable variety of economic and social …

describing five sociobehavioral processes - comparison (including justice and self-esteem), status, power, identity, and … - comparison, status, and power - each associated with a distinctive mechanism, in particular, a distinctive rate of change of the …

presence of relative income terms in the utility function. Income may be evaluated relative to others (social comparison) or to …