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 …

The 21st century global decline in productivity growth is not well understood. One possible contributor is a decline in … economic dynamism. We explore the contribution of firm formation and employee movement to productivity using administrative … working proprietors, to study the relationships among entry, worker flows and firm productivity. Entrants are more productive …

decomposition of total factor productivity growth …

productivity increases by less, measured labor productivity growth falls compared to the middle period. However this fall reflects … productivity growth rates. Substantial variation in these growth rates remains within the 1929-1965 and 1965-1978 periods. Slow … quality-adjusted labor productivity growth during 1929-1948 is just offset by unusually rapid growth during 1948-1965; these …

The U.S. has been experiencing a slowdown in measured labor productivity growth since 2004. A number of commentators … challenges to this “mismeasurement hypothesis.” First, the productivity slowdown has occurred in dozens of countries, and its … output” resulting from the productivity growth slowdown. The largest—by some distance—is less than one-third of the …

The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent … per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 ….1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This paper provides a unified framework that explains productivity growth …

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 …

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 …

.S. manufacturing businesses. OLS results for labor productivity and Tobin's q models both reveal that nonunion businesses that employ a …