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This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms' monopolistic market power, and workers' wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …
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The productivity of firms is, at least partly, determined by a firm's actions and decisions. One of these decisions … endogenous response of revenue-based and quantity-based productivity to a change in layers: a firm reorganization. We show that … as a result of an exogenous demand or productivity shock that makes the firm reorganize and add a management layer …
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factor productivity growth–particularly among the less productive firms under private Chinese or foreign ownership, but not …
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Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can … therefore on their colleagues' productivity. We study the effects of such externalities in a competitive labor market if workers … have private information on their productivity. We find that in any competitive equilibrium there must be Pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057664
Team production is a frequent feature of modern organizations. Combined with team incentives, team production can … therefore on their colleagues’ productivity. We study the effects of such externalities in a competitive labor market if workers … have private information on their productivity. We find that in any competitive equilibrium there must be Pareto …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010743453
evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …
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The oil and gas sector plays a crucial role in the Norwegian economy. It accounts for a very large proportion of gross domestic product, government revenues, investment and exports. A sharp fall in oil prices has had a significant impact on the economy and focused great attention on the cost...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978380
Development projects in the oil industry often have cost overruns. Through analysis of data from Norwegian development projects in the petroleum industry, this paper investigates the common effect of business cycle developments on cost overruns. Lack of capacity and expertise in a tight supplier...
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This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011210785
evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010706000