marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate … developed countries follows a distinct pattern. On the one hand, wage premiums exceed productivity premiums for general human … capital characteristics (tenure and training), even though these have a clear productivity effect …

information-worker productivity, we study task level practices at a midsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project … that (a) IT use is positively correlated with non-linear drivers of productivity; (b) the structure and size of workers … productivity such that, beyond an optimum, more multitasking is associated with declining project completion rates and revenue …

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms … of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of … and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal …

This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on labor productivity growth among industrial countries … labor productivity has increased dramatically. The main contribution of the paper is to show how these observations are … demographic factors temporarily become an major determinant of labor productivity growth. Our estimation of the model implies that …

The present study is a contribution to the theory of the measurement of productivity growth. First, it examines the … welfare-theoretic basis for measuring productivity growth and shows that the ideal welfare-theoretic measure is a chain index … of productivity growth rates of different sectors which uses current output weights. Second, it lays out a technique for …

This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by encouraging workers to seek higher … productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create those jobs. We use a quantitative general equilibrium model to investigate …

these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …

that average productivity rises, that the firm will attract a more able work force and that the variance in output across … structures between 1994 and 1995. All theoretical predictions are borne out. In the firm examined, the productivity effects are … worker-specific increase in productivity is passed on to workers in the form of higher wages …

data indicate no difference between the relative wage and relative productivity of black workers. Finally, with the … exception of managerial and professional occupations, women are paid about 25-35% less than men, but estimated productivity …

This paper examines trends in computer usage and the effect on productivity growth for a sample of federal government … Computer Productivity Paradox as it applies to the public sector. Computers do not appear to be responsible for the … disappointing productivity performance of the service sector. Although the magnitude of our estimated elasticity suggests that the …