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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 …

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The Fall of the Labor Share and the Rise of Superstar Firms

Autor, David - 2017

The fall of labor's share of GDP in the United States and many other countries in recent decades is well documented but its causes remain uncertain. Existing empirical assessments of trends in labor's share typically have relied on industry or macro data, obscuring heterogeneity among firms. In...

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The New Empirical Economics of Management

Bloom, Nicholas - 2014

Over the last decade the World Management Survey (WMS) has collected firm-level management practices data across multiple sectors and countries. We developed the survey to try to explain the large and persistent TFP differences across firms and countries. This review paper discusses what has...

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Management and Misallocation in Mexico

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

. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of … with frictions lowering aggregate management quality and productivity …

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What Drives Differences in Management?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2017

the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

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Concentrating on the Fall of the Labor Share

Autor, David - 2017

The recent fall of labor's share of GDP in numerous countries is well-documented, but its causes are poorly understood. We sketch a "superstar firm" model where industries are increasingly characterized by "winner take most" competition, leading a small number of highly profitable (and low labor...

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The Land that Lean Manufacturing Forgot? Management Practices in Transition Countries

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

We have conducted the first survey on management practices in transition countries. We found that Central Asian transition countries, such as Uzbekistan and Kazakhstan, have on average very poor management practices. Their average scores are below emerging countries such as Brazil, China and...

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The Impact of Healthcare IT on Clinical Quality, Productivity and Workers

Bronsoler, Ari; Doyle, Joseph J.; Van Reenen, John - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

the medical and economic literature on HICT adoption and its impact on clinical outcomes, productivity and labor. We find … HICT on productivity is needed to guide further adoption. There is little econometric work directly investigating the … productivity stressing the importance of complementary factors (e.g. management and skills) in determining HICT impacts …

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Trade Induced Technical Change? The Impact of Chinese Imports on Innovation, IT and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2011

We examine the impact of Chinese import competition on patenting, IT, R&D and TFP using a panel of up to half a million firms over 1996-2007 across twelve European countries. We correct for endogeneity using the removal of product-specific quotas following China's entry into the World Trade...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas - 2010

productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …

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