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 …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be …

recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

spillovers on total factor productivity (TFP). In common with previous studies, we find evidence of intra-industry spillovers … relations into account. We find important productivity spillover effects from plants in upstream industries. Interestingly, a …