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The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms

Figueroa, C. Jara - 2018

How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that knowledge? Here we measure the industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge carried by workers from one...

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Inefficient Labor Market Sorting

Eckel, Carsten; Yeaple, Stephen R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

adoption of best practice management techniques that allow them to better identify and use talented workers. The reasons for … the incomplete adoption of these "structured management practices" (SMPs) and their welfare implications are not well …

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Insider Privatization and Careers - A Study of a Russian Firm in Transition

Friebel, Guido - 2007

We study how transition has affected human resource policies of a Russian heavy industry firm. Our data set contains personnel files of 1538 white-collar workers over 17 years: from 1984 to 2000. We find career paths before the first year of Gaidar's reforms, 1992, when Russian transition to a...

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Formal Employee Training Programs and Their Impact on Labor Produc- tivity : Evidence from a Human Resources Survey

Bartel, Ann P. - 1989

Although economic models of training decisions are framed in terms of a company's calculation of the costs and benefits of such training, empirical work has never been able to test this model directly on company behavior. This paper utilizes a unique database to analyze the determinants of the...

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On the Allocation and Impacts of Managerial Training

Adhvaryu, Achyuta; Murathanoglu, Emir; Nyshadham, Anant - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study the allocation and productivity consequences of training production line supervisors in soft skills via a randomized controlled trial. Consistent with standard practice for training investments within firms, we asked middle managers -- who sit above supervisors in the hierarchy -- to...

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Training within Firms

Diaz, Brayan S.; Neyra Nazarrett, Andrea; Ramirez, Julian; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2025

Training investments are essential for improving worker and firm productivity, yet their implementation is often hindered by low participation rates and insufficient worker engagement. This study uses data from three firms--a car manufacturer, a quick-service restaurant chain, and a retail...

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Management as a Technology?

Bloom, Nicholas - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain firm and national productivity, or do they simply … reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 countries. We … find large cross-country differences in the adoption of management practices, with the US having the highest size …

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Management Practices, Workforce Selection and Productivity

Bender, Stefan - 2016

advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are … unique data set that combines detailed survey data on the management practices of German manufacturing firms with … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …

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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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Polarizing Corporations : Does Talent Flow to "Good" Firms?

Colonnelli, Emanuele; McQuade, Timothy; Ramos, Gabriel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We conduct a field experiment in partnership with the largest job platform in Brazil to study how environmental, social, and governance (ESG) practices of firms affect talent allocation. We find both an average job-seeker's preference for ESG and a large degree of heterogeneity across...

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