productivity are introduced on top of traditional variables. Modelling results on IE estimates for LAC countries that are at par …

impact on labor productivity and they lead to a fall in the unemployment rate. Collective bargaining reforms do not seem to … affect either productivity or capital formation but they have a clear medium-term effect on the labor market. Moreover …

This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across … US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size …

Conflicts between management and workers are common and can have significant impacts on productivity. We study how … productivity of surviving workers. Moreover, it is specifically the firing of peers with whom workers had social connections …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …