Across many sectors, research has established that management explains a notable portion of productivity differences … across organizations. A remaining question, however, is whether it is managers themselves or firm-wide management practices … this setting, managers move between stores but management practices are set by firm policy and largely fixed, allowing us …

productivity gap" suggests that labor is greatly misallocated across sectors. In this paper, we draw on new micro evidence to ask …

management quality are available, we show that the positive impact of high trust on productivity in intangible …-intensive industries is channeled by the ability to benefit from good management, a key element of organizational capital. Productivity … investigate the influence of a key element of social capital - trust - on labour productivity in intangible-intensive industries …

support agents. Access to the tool increases productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 14 percent on average …

the productivity difference between physicians and nurse practitioners (NPs), two health care professions performing … when accounting for NPs' wages that are half as much as physicians'. Despite large productivity differences between … professions, we find even larger productivity differences within professions and substantial productivity overlap between …

willingness to do preventative tasks to reduce the expected total task length. If workers integrate their risk management …, consistent with an integrated view of risk management and later labor decisions. Our results have implications for designing …

labor productivity and lower labor shares. In particular, the use of these technologies is associated with a 11.4% higher … labor productivity, which accounts for 20-30% of the difference in labor productivity between large firms and the median …