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 …

remain - and the Covid-19 shock may have exacerbated them. This report analyses European firms' investment in training over … the last six years examining trends, factors supporting training investment as well as the impact of the Covid-19 shock …. We base the empirical analysis on a unique dataset, the European Investment Bank's Investment Survey (EIBIS), which …

This paper estimates the causal effect of corporate tax hikes on firm investment based on more than 1,400 local tax … changes. By observing planned and realized investment volumes in a representative sample of German manufacturing firms, we can … study how tax hikes induce firms to revise their investment decisions. On average, the share of firms that invest less than …

of the minimum wage on human capital investment rates and no overall effects on fixed capital investment rates. When …

In this paper, we investigate the effect of real estate prices on productive investment. We build a simple theoretical … framework of firms' investment with credit rationing and real estate collateral. We show that real estate prices affect firms … identification of the second channel allows for heterogeneous effects of real estate prices on investment across firms. We test our …

It is widely believed that rent-sharing reduces the incentives for investment when long term contracts are infeasible … find little evidence that bargaining lowers the return on investment. Instead, firm-level bargaining appears to split the …

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 …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … well. By implication, policies that stimulate investment and R&D and policies that affect the size of the labor force may … productivity. …

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 …