unionism and productivity and discusses its implications for future research on more general issues. The main focus is on (I …) conclusions as to whether unions raise or lower productivity and (2) procedures used to identify the channels through which unions … affect productivity. The studies of unions and productivity have documented large productivity differences between seemingly …

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 …

We develop a dynamic equilibrium model of labor demand with adverse selection. Firms learn the quality of newly hired …

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 …

large effects on the quality of care that patients receive, and that all of these effects persist for several years. Our … results suggest that switching to higher-quality PCPs could significantly affect patients' longer-run health outcomes …

Improving school quality with limited resources is a key issue of policy. It has been suggested that instructing … and not for the most deprived. Based on the CLASS instrument we document that quality of teacher-student interactions is …

purchase used assets which are less durable than new assets and adopt less durable, low quality assets, that are otherwise … fraction in less durable, low quality assets. There is a critical distinction between the pledgeability and durability of …

A low-quality patent system threatens to slow the pace of technological progress. Concerns about low patent quality are … not have been issued. This paper proposes a new Bayesian method for measuring patent quality, based on twin patent … applications granted at one office but refused at another office. Our method allows us to distinguish whether low-quality patents …

the market for quality. However, inadequate risk adjustment of report-card measures often biases comparisons across …