market is quantitatively important for mechanization and productivity since it provides a workaround for other market …

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 …

establishments. Within the framework of a modified Cobb-Douglas production function, layoffs do not influence subsequent productivity …

productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

This paper examines the impact of unionization on profit- ability, growth and productivity using time series data on … analysis is that information about union wage and productivity effects is not sufficient to permit prediction of the sign (or … negative union effects on profitability, but growth, productivity and the capital-labor ratio appear to be little affected by …

between firm productivity and the level of its R&D invespments. In the time dimension, using deviations from fire means as … the lag structure of the effects of R&D on productivity. These effects are apparently highly variable, both in timing and …

pass-through productivity contributed 0.37% per year of a TFP growth rate of 1.09%. From 1994 to 2004, the falling … productivity gap contributed 0.77% per year to the TFP growth of 2.00% …

The correlation between productivity and competition is an oft-observed but ill-understood result. Some suggest that … there is a treatment effect of competition on measured productivity, e.g. through a reduction of managerial slack. Others …, raising observed average productivity via selection. I study the ready-mix concrete industry and offer three perspectives on …