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

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

our key results to alternative data sets. -- China ; investment ; growth ; productivity ; capital market distortions …

pervasive informality. We provide a simple framework to analyze the impact of UC on the allocation of workers between formal and … informal activities, as well as the allocation of workers between sectors featuring different incentives to go informal. We …

) productivity growth, as more productive businesses displace less productive ones. However, this research has been limited by the … productivity measures. If prices reflect idiosyncratic demand or market power shifts, high "productivity" businesses may not be … selection and productivity growth using data from industries where we observe producer-level quantities and prices separately …

productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US. …

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. …

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

establishments' productivities. Inflation distorts aggregate productivity through firm entry dynamics. The model is calibrated to the … decrease in the steady-state average productivity of roughly 0.5 percent compared to the optimum's steady-state. This decrease … in productivity is not innocuous: it leads to a doubling of the welfare cost of inflation. -- Firm dynamics …

experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a … higher wages) and increase their exports of goods and services. -- foreign experts ; export ; immigrants ; productivity …