This paper examines the impact of the operations of foreign-owned multinational firms on the productivity growth of …-owned firms affects the productivity of local firms in that sector and whether there is any evidence of convergence between that … industry's productivity level and that of the United States. The main results can be summarized as follows: First, productivity …

productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …

empirical finding.Three elaborations to the basic production frontier framework are developed and used to interpret the accident-productivity …

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 …

The age structure of capital plays an important role in the measurement of productivity. It has been argued that the … productivity measurement. A proposition proves that Nelson's (1964) formula is wrong. Our final proposition shows that inclusion of … the vintage effect prompts an upward correction of measured productivity growth in times of an aging stock of capital …

practices improve worker productivity? For this study, we constructed our own data base through personal site visits to 26 steel … productivity, work practices, and the technology in these production lines. The empirical results consistently support the … higher levels of productivity than do more 'traditional' approaches involving narrow job definitions, strict work rules, and …

This study documents a significant inverse relationship between grievance rates and productivity. It is argued in the …

technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity … estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons …