productivity. To estimate models of adoption of these work practices and models of the effects of the work practices on … productivity, we constructed a data set on the operations of 34 production lines in U.S. steel minimills. Through site visits and … interviews, we collected longitudinal data including precise measures on productivity, work practices, and technology of each of …

in a region or sector, it is their productivity advantage that determines the positive effect on domestic firms in … measuring total factor productivity (TFP) of firms and to different empirical specifications …

and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and …

knowledge-based hierarchies to study issues like the evolution of wage inequality, the growth and productivity of firms …

team composition, firm diversification, and IT investments--which arguably alter returns to exploiting synergies through … show that general manager pay decreases as functional managers join the executive team suggesting a shift in activities …

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of …

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and … productivity of establishments. We find that firms that re-engineer their workplaces to incorporate more high performance practices …