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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

Card, David - 2002

France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …

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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009

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Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance : UK Evidence

Conyon, Martin J. - 2001

shared compensation practices have had higher productivity than other firms, but the effects vary among programs, suggesting …

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Non-linear Incentives and Worker Productivity and Earnings : Evidence from a Quasi-experiment

Freeman, Richard B. - 2019

Firms often use non-linear incentive systems to motivate workers to achieve specified goals, such as paying bonuses to reach targets in sales, production, or cost reduction. Using administrative data from a major Chinese insurance firm that raised its sales targets and rewards for insurance...

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Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance

Blasi, Joseph R. - 2008

This paper uses data from NBER surveys of over 40,000 employees in hundreds of facilities in 14 firms and from employees on the 2002 and 2006 General Social Surveys to explore how shared compensation affects turnover, absenteeism, loyalty, worker effort, and other outcomes affecting workplace...

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Trade Unions and Productivity : Some New Evidence on an Old Issue

Freeman, Richard B. - 1983

This paper summarized some new evidence concerning the impact of collective bargaining on productivity for workers of a … productive than those that are nonunion. This positive union productivity effect is not an immutable constant. For example,in the … were significantly more productive in 1965.The routes by which unions affect productivity have not yet been carefully …

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Optimal Inequality/Optimal Incentives : Evidence from a Tournament

Freeman, Richard B. - 2006

This paper examines performance in a tournament setting with different levels of inequality in rewards and different provision of information about individual's skill at the task prior to the tournament. We find that that total tournament output depends on inequality according to an inverse U...

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The Effects of Scientists and Engineers on Productivity and Earnings at the Establishment Where They Work

Barth, Erling - 2017

engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …

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Seeking a premier league economy : the economic effects of British economic reforms, 1980 - 2000 ; [the papers were presented at a preliminary conference and a final conference at...

Card, David E. (ed.); Blundell, Richard W. (contributor); … - 2004

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Why Not Africa?

Freeman, Richard B. - 1999

Various arguments have been used to explain Sub-Saharan Africa's economic decline. We find that a stress on investments in education as a prerequisite for more rapid growth is misplaced; that greater openness is far from sufficient to insure economic progress; that income inequality and urban bias...

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