Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … simply reflect contingent management styles? We collect data on core management practices from over 11,000 firms in 34 … countries. We find large cross-country differences in the adoption of basic management practices, with the US having the highest …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

World Management Survey methodology. The frequent turnover of school principals over this period allows us to causally … administrative data on secondary Italian students to the management scores of their school principals in 2011 and 2015 based on the … interpret school-fixed-effect estimates. We find that management quality positively and substantially impacts standardized math …

performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in … both firms and workers. The estimation of rent-sharing equations, as well as other tests that exploit unionization data …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

productive than firms that only sell on the national market. This positive exporter productivity premium shows up in a large … firm fixed effects. These studies test for a difference in productivity between exporters and non-exporters at the … conditional mean of the productivity distribution. However, if firms are heterogeneous, it is possible that the size of the …

. -- Robust estimation ; panel data ; exporter productivity premium ; export destinations … estimates of the productivity premium of German firms exporting to the Euro-zone and beyond, controlling for unobserved time … observations, or outliers. The paper shows that estimates of the exporter productivity premium by destination are driven by a small …

not relocate activities abroad before 2006. The comparison is performed for both 2004 (to document differences between the … negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence …