longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … management practices on productivity in German manufacturing …Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of …

Which managerial skills, traits, and practices matter most for productivity? How does the observability of these …, like attention, autonomy, and control, are important for learning-by-doing as well as for overall productivity, but are not …

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 …

, higher productivity plants, account for the bulk of sales, and also sell externally most of the inputs they produce. In a …

. These management practices are strongly associated with higher productivity, growth, trade, and innovation. One indicator of … with frictions lowering aggregate management quality and productivity …We argue that greater misallocation is a key driver of the worse management practices in Mexico compared to the US …

wages and productivity across establishments. The second is that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across … productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades, and (4) a substantial fraction of the rising … dispersion in wages and productivity is accounted for by increasing wage and productivity differentials across high and low …

We estimate the rate of total factor productivity growth in Indian manufacturing industry for the period 1973-1992, and … it ignores the additional capital formation made possible by an increase in productivity and therefore understates … productivity's true importance. Our estimates suggest that the understatement may be quite large, and that one might better ask if …

productivity of the targeted industries and regions grew significantly faster than those of non-targeted ones. While the plant …-level total factor productivity also grew faster in targeted industries and regions, the misallocation of resources within them … got significantly worse, especially among the entrants, so that the total factor productivity at the industry-region level …