-sector workplaces in 32 countries, we document conditional correlations between ER and the depth of hierarchy that are consistent with … changes. Taken together, our findings suggest that ER increases the depth of firm hierarchy by facilitating the flow of …

. Compared to individual incentives, team incentives can affect productivity by changing both workers' effort and team … productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either through rankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … average productivity by 14%, whereas introducing a tournament increases it by 24%. Both effects are heterogeneous: rank …

recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers' wages. We then discuss in …

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry …-specific. -- Productivity ; workplace practices ; linked employer-employee data ; information technologies …

We analyze the efficiency and productivity growth of a representative sample of Portuguese hospitals from 1997 to 2004 …, using an innovative approach by employing the directional distance function and the Luenberger productivity indicator. The … productivity indicator that is decomposed into the usual constituents of productivity growth: technological change and efficiency …

fields that standard measures of productivity – like output per worker or total factor productivity – vary substantially … productivity across firms mirror the trends in the wage inequality across workers. Two distinct literatures have searched for a … productivity. Studies that focus on firm-specific productivity shocks and control for the non-random sorting of workers to more and …

variation within hierarchy levels, (2) promotion premiums only in part explain hierarchical wage differences and (3) external … recruitment is observable on nearly any hierarchy level. We explain these empirical puzzles by combining job-promotion tournaments … with higher-level bonus payments in a two-tier hierarchy. Moreover, we show that under certain conditions the firm …