This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …

and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …

This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical …

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 …