This paper analyzes empirically the effect of spatial agglomeration of activities on the productivity of firms using … location choice: we find very little difference between the geography that would maximize productivity gains and the geography …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

effect on productivity when workers and paid piece rates and there is no incentive to cooperate. …

. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers’ effort and team … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … average productivity by 14%, whereas introducing a tournament increases it by 24%. Both effects are heterogeneous: rank …