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Does Working from Home Work? Evidence from a Chinese Experiment

Bloom, Nicholas; Liang, James; Roberts, John; Ying, … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013

About 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there are concerns this can lead to "shirking from home." We report the results of a WFH experiment at CTrip, a 16,000-employee, NASDAQ-listed Chinese travel agency. Call center employees who volunteered to WFH were randomly...

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Human Resource Management and Productivity

Bloom, Nicholas; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

In this chapter we examine the relationship between Human Resource Management (HRM) and productivity. HRM includes … practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity and the main economic … analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results (from micro-econometric studies …

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Recent Advances in the Empirics of Organizational Economics

Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

and decentralization. Productivity dispersion between firms and countries has motivated the improved measurement of firm … identification of the productivity effects of organizational practices remain a challenge for future research. …

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The Impact of Competition on Management Quality: Evidence from Public Hospitals

Bloom, Nicholas; Propper, Carol; Seiler, Stephan; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2010

We analyze the causal impact of competition on managerial quality (and hospital performance). To address the endogeneity of market structure we analyze the English public hospital sector where entry and exit are controlled by the central government. Because closing hospitals in areas where the...

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IT and Management in America

Bloom, Nicholas; Brynjolfsson, Erik; Foster, Lucia; … - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability …

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Identifying Technology Spillovers and Product Market Rivalry

Bloom, Nicholas; Schankerman, Mark; Reenen, John Van - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2005

The impact of R&D on growth through spillovers has been a major topic of economic research over the last thirty years. A central problem in the literature is that firm performance is affected by two countervailing "spillovers": a positive effect from technology (knowledge) spillovers and...

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