for any permanent differences in productivity across workers, firms, and job matches. We also compare OLS and instrumental … strong evidence of rent-sharing, with a "Lester range" of variation in wages between profitable and unprofitable firms of …

This paper studies the long-term effect of hedge fund activism on the productivity of target firms using plant …'s business strategy. We also find that plants sold post-intervention exhibit a significant improvement in productivity under new …. We further find that employees of target firms experience a reduction in work hours and stagnation in wages despite an …

productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …

engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …

features aggregate unemployment and jobs that pay different wages to identical workers. Simulations show that, for reasonable …

This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity … through their various impacts on changes in production prices and wages. In a first stage, the estimation of a regression …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of … our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …

discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages … highly profitable enterprises that are more likely to grow and pay higher wages. Using multiple establishment-level data sets … barely lost. The analysis finds small impacts on all outcomes that we examine; estimates for wages are close to zero. The …

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 …

marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. Under certain conditions, the wage premiums … for worker characteristics should equal the productivity benefits associated with them. I find that equality holds …). Differences between wage and productivity premiums are most pronounced for characteristics that are clearly related to human …