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The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive … structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational … had an impact on productivity and profitability. We find that the UK plant's productivity and worker satisfaction was well …
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A central challenge in the measurement of entrepreneurship is accounting for the wide variation in entrepreneurial quality across firms. This paper develops a new approach for estimating entrepreneurial quality by linking the probability of a growth outcome (e.g., achieving an IPO or a...
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While there is strong evidence for productivity-driven selection into exporting, previous research has mostly failed to … identify export-related efficiency gains within plants. This non-result is derived from revenue productivity (TFPR), thus also …
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success from firm surveys along with the usual R&D expenditures and productivity measures. We then apply the model to data on … process and product innovation. Both these kinds of innovation have a positive impact on firm's productivity, especially …
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to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides …
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untested implication of many theories rationalizing the growth of within-group inequality is that firm-level productivity … manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors since the early 1980s. We find evidence that productivity inequality has increased … between firms (and within industries). Increased productivity dispersion appears to be linked with new technologies as …
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In this paper we develop a multi-sector general equilibrium model of firm heterogeneity, worker heterogeneity and labor market frictions. We characterize the distributions of employment, unemployment, wages and income within and between sectors as a function of structural parameters. We find...
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Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity …-Hansberg (2006) to assess how much lawyers' productivity and the distribution of earnings across lawyers reflects lawyers' ability to … productivity and earnings distributions in this industry is substantial but not dramatic, reflecting the fact that the problems …
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We study the relationship between employee satisfaction and abnormal stock returns around the world, using lists of the "Best Companies to Work For" in 14 countries. We show that employee satisfaction is associated with positive abnormal returns in countries with high labor market flexibility,...
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Many large urban school districts are rethinking their personnel management strategies, often giving increased control to schools in the hiring of teachers, reducing, for example, the importance of seniority. If school hiring authorities are able to make good decisions about whom to hire, these...
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