While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …

fixed offshoring costs. In the skill-abundant country, high-productivity firms offshore a larger range of labor …-intensive inputs to the labor-abundant countries than low-productivity firms. Differently from the traditional versions of factor …-proportions trade theory, Heckscher-Ohlin forces operate at the within-industry level, leading to endogenous variation in skill …

Why is it that exporter productivity premia (EPP) differ so widely in size? We take this question to the theory and to … EPPs across sectors, and hence across countries, can be explained by the variation in productivity dispersion, trade costs …

observed increase productivity at least initially when compensation is team based, while we find that subjects observing react …

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile …

low- and high-productivity firms. By introducing a declining time profile of benefits, the government can affect the … equilibrium wage profile in a manner that enhances the sorting of workers across low- and high-productivity firms. We demonstrate … that optimal government policy depends on the dispersion and skewness of the firms' productivity distribution …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …

We show that in a Ricardo-Viner-type trade model with unemployment due to search and matching the productivity effect …

productivity differences, the model features profit and wage differentials across industries. We use this setting to study the …