The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and … important determinant of productivity and (iii) implies that efficiency gains of up to 0.14 standard deviations can be achieved … productivity between day and night shifts, we establish that such relationship is also important within a standard day-light shift …

efficiency of co-ops; and on problems of democratic governance within co-ops. Using modern empirical methods applied to large … ; comparative efficiency ; viability …

there is a tradeoff as to efficiency and inequality with respect to services that are contracted to private companies in a …

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …

per employee results in statistically significant productivity gains. Furthermore, such productivity gains are found to …-executive employees and stock option aimed at incentivizing executives. Finally the positive effects on productivity, profitability, wages …

bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … empirical analysis confirms this hypothesis. The presence of works councils exerts a positive impact on productivity within the …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …