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

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

hypothesis that financial and productivity performance is superior in establishments without worker representation is not … favorable regime for financial performance, although this does not carry over to the labor productivity outcome. On net, however … without formal workplace representation. Greater worker commitment is strongly associated with improved labor productivity …

impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the … data, 1982-1997, with observed productivity changes much more likely due to changes in speed limits and the dimensions of …

reservation wages, shifting the labor force towards the more productive firms. The relation between productivity dispersion and UI … policy is mediated by the wage posting policies of firms that take both productivity and policy into account. Optimal UI … policy is shown to crucially depend on the properties of the firm productivity distribution, such as its variance and …

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA … questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how …

management ; labor productivity ; labor standards ; India ; garments …

This paper studies the value of firms and their hiring and firing decisions in an environment where the productivity of … paper stresses the role of horizontal differences in worker productivity, as opposed to vertical, assortative matching …

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage …-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment process of productivity, empirical results reveal the existence of a … positive impact from conditional intra-firm wage dispersion to firm productivity (measured by the average value added per hour …