country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country's macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …

How valuable is education for entrepreneurs' performance as compared to employees'? What might explain any differences … show furthermore that entrepreneurs have higher returns to education than employees (in terms of the comparable performance …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

paramount concern. We assess the introduction of group-based performance pay in a modern industrial production setting using … difference-in-difference estimation. Performance increased by 19 percent, with three quarters coming from increased performance … little evidence of freeriding; quantile regressions show increased performance throughout the distribution of workers …

High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental … reduce effort in order to cope with heat. We investigate how temperature affects performance of male professional tennis …. We find that performance significantly decreases with ambient temperature. The magnitude of the temperature effect is age …

employee engagement are independently associated with improvements in workplace performance. I consider the implications of the …