productivity and composition of teams. Strengthening incentives, either throughrankings or tournaments, makes workers more likely … reduce the productivity of teams at the bottom of theproductivity distribution, and monetary prize tournaments only increase … the productivity ofteams at the top. We interpret these results through a theoretical framework that makesprecise when the …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are commonworldwide, but rigorous micro …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign directinvestment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … thatthe productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms frommanufacturing industries – where the … firms with the highest productivity engage in fdi whilethe least productive firms serve the home market only and the …

Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distortingproduction choices. Firms …-discharge protections by U.S. state courts over the last three decades to evaluatethe link between dismissal costs and productivity... …

forexogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are statevariables, and productivity follows a …

labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workerschanges proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we … argue that technical changes also affectthe curvature of the distribution of relative productivity... …