We collect data on operations, targets and human resources management practices in over 1,800 schools educating 15-year …-olds in eight countries. Overall, we show that higher management quality is strongly associated with better educational … outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable …

Partnering with the Census we implement a new survey of "structured" management practices in 32,000 US manufacturing … plants. We find an enormous dispersion of management practices across plants, with 40% of this variation across plants within … the same firm. This management variation accounts for about a fifth of the spread of productivity, a similar fraction as …

management compensation. In this paper, we study the relation between management compensation and firm-level income dynamics in a … general equilibrium model. Empirical estimation, of the model's key parameters show that the rising management premium is … rising management premium produces income distribution dynamics at the firm level which are similar to those observed at the …

, employment, and capital equations largely corroborate the implications of the behavioral models of the two types of enterprise …