answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs' counterparts, i.e. the 'control … very important but specific function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

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

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

innovative inputs on a sample of 3045 manufacturing firms drawn from the third Italian Community Innovation Survey (1998 …-2000). The interactions between four different sources of innovation internal and external R&D, embodied and disembodied … complementarity and substitutability relationships, depending both on the typology of the targeted innovation output and on the …

migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … regional level. However, there is a dearth of research on the links between innovation and migrant diversity at the firm level …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity. Information on the opponent is a promising nudge to raise individuals' awareness towards the complexity of the … decision problem and to update beliefs about success. In the experiment, subjects face the choice between a competition game …

We present a household production model that incorporates multitasking and results from a customized experiment … designed to measure the individual-specific productivity parameters from this model. We observe these productivity parameters …

We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … bonuses makes them cheat more but has no effect on their productivity. We also find that more productive workers behave more …

This paper studies the impact of incentives on worker self-selection in a controlled laboratory experiment. In a first … step we elicit subjects' productivity levels. Subjects then face the choice between a fixed or a variable payment scheme …) compared to the fixed payment scheme. Second, this difference is largely driven by productivity sorting. On average, the more …