questions in a model based on two stylized facts from psychology and behavioral economics: i) Goals serve as reference points …

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …

rates increase firm's productivity while high shares of temporary contracts decrease it. Both effects are quantitatively …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

How do economic reforms affect resource reallocation processes and their contributions to productivity growth? This … rates that bore little relationship to relative labor and multifactor productivity across firms. Since reforms began …, resource flows have increased in both countries, and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth have become …

and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …