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 …

related to the change in their management performance. Using new and unique data from a recent large scale firm survey of … management practices in Germany, we calculate management scores for firms as in Bloom et al. (2013). These indicate how … structured management is in a given firm. We find that switching into exporting, and to a lesser degree opening up affiliates …

We argue that one major cause of the U.S. postwar baby boom was the increased demand for female labor during World War …. -- Fertility ; baby boom ; World War II ; female labor-force participation …

standards in economics around the world been reflected in research performance? How have individual countries fared? Do research …

Census data from international sources covering 77% of the world's migrant population indicate that the skill …