outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

We study the relationship between age and literacy skills in Canada, Norway and the U.S. &- countries that represent a … part of the skill distribution where falling skills are most evident. In Canada the cross-cohort declines are especially …

We analyze changes in unemployment, marginal labor force attachment and participation in Canada and the U.S.. Using two … distinct from one another in both Canada and the U.S. …

We examine the changing relationship between unionization and wage inequality in Canada and the United States. Our …

days per week rose more than three-fold in the U.S and by a factor of five or more in Australia, Canada, New Zealand and …