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 …

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 …

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 …

to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity, and decides …

We develop a theory of multiproduct firms to analyze the effects of globalization on the distributions of firm size …, scope, and productivity. Our model explains two puzzles. First, it explains the well-known size-discount puzzle: large firms … firms. In our model, globalization not only affects the distribution of observed productivities but also productivity at the …

Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important … source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth … through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a modified version of the Schumpeterian theory of firm evolution …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …