Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry-specific. …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

signals that is concave, a feature that earlier studies used to dismiss educational signaling. Using a synthetic panel data … signaling framework theoretically and empirically. …

?s. The paper compares the predictions of the signaling and human capital models in response to an exogenous demand shock … to employers their productivity, a change in the schooling equilibrium should not affect their earnings. Four testable … hypotheses are derived. The findings suggest that the signaling model may indeed predict the observed changes in the schooling …

This paper extends the job market signaling model of Spence (1973) by allowing firms to learn the ability of their … uncertain about their productivity, the separating level of education is ambiguously related to the speed of employer learning. …

This paper presents a test of the educational signaling hypothesis. If employers use education as a signal in the …

opportunity costs as the basis for the inverse trade-conflict relationship, thus implying that one need not rely on signaling. …

In my asymmetric-information model of layoffs, high-productivity workers are more likely to be recalled to their former … signal of productivity, and duration of unemployment may be positively related to post-laid-off wages even among workers who … not have a positive signaling benefit. Analysis of the data from the January 1988-2000 Displaced Workers Supplements to …

The costs of vertical integration are analyzed within a game-theoretic signaling model. It is shown that a company when …