Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …

the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting …-tech sector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assets appears vital for the productivity …

with the size of production units. These distortions lead to sharp reductions in plant productivity and the fraction of … ; skill investments ; productivity differences …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … estimate it using panel data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

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. …