existing literature, we show that workers can affect the productivity of their co-workers based on income maximization … performance of his peers, but decreases with the quality of the team's pitching. Furthermore, a pitcher's performance increases … with the pitching quality of his teammates, but is unaffected by the batting output of the team. These results are …

on the correct estimation of the tenure-productivity curve for new hires, accounting for the selection effects of the …

that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer …-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

variable for the qualification of the workforce, mostly due to the lack of detailed information on the qualification of the … the qualification of the workforce. Furthermore, it demonstrates that detailed information on the qualification of the … workforce sheds new light on the role of highly qualified employees for success on export markets that is not revealed by the …

ventures together in teams.In this paper we test whether the effect of more balanced skills is also positive in a team of … specialists within one team. Our field experiment studies teams of children participating in an entrepreneurship education program … show that balanced skills are beneficial to team performance, and that it is hard to substitute individual balanced skills …

, which can ultimately impede the productivity of the team. To address this problem, we conduct a field experiment at a … by approximately 7%, while leaving team leaders' productivity unchanged, and was profitable for the firm. During the … intervention, we observe a positive correlation between the evaluations of team leaders and the productivity of team members …

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …