unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

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

production and productivity of a large-scale garments manufacturer in Pakistan. The analysis provides evidence that production … productivity it had the desired effect of reducing the number of daily quality defects observed after the intervention. …

productivity in the long run. …

sales, value added, employment, productivity, and exports. These effects tend to be of at least 5% and, in some cases, 10 …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth … productivity. Secondly, we draw attention to recent modeling and estimation effort that reveals novel sources of heterogeneity, non …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity …

practices have demonstrable benefits for those who use them, helping firms to grow and increasing their productivity. The …

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 …