affects the marginal productivity of the latter, and that a decline in the cost of introducing ADT reduces employers …

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. …

We study the role of firm productivity in explaining earnings disparities between immigrants and natives using … persistent productivity, with greater gains for immigrants from non-Western countries. Moreover, the pass-through of within …-firm productivity variation to earnings is stronger for immigrants in low-productive, immigrant-dense firms. But immigrant workers are …

In this paper, we explore the impact of workers' tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer … theoretical predictions, we find that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity. The … beneficial for productivity in contexts characterized by a certain degree of routineness and lower job complexity. Along the same …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …

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 …

We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity … migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens of a derived "productivity-wage gap" that captures the difference in … complementarities between the two groups or, at least, positive mutual sorting of these groups into higher productivity firms. …

We ask whether the gendered division of work affects firm productivity across the spectrum of economic development … of female employees is higher where women are underrepresented in the candidate pool. This implies productivity gains …

We investigate the impact of rising temperatures on firm productivity using longitudinal firm-level balance-sheet data … productivity declines markedly as temperatures rise, while capital productivity remains unaffected – indicating that TFP is … experience significant productivity declines. Geographically, the negative impact is most pronounced in temperate and …