We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

threshold. Workers randomly assigned to equal sharing had higher productivity than those assigned to winner-takes-all and had … similar productivity to workers in individual piece-rate scheme with no team element. Output under equal sharing was boosted … by the higher productivity of less able workers, possibly motivated by a desire to avoid guilt feelings about letting …

the presence of clauses have a weak relationship with the geologic productivity of nearby wells. Together, our findings … concessions do not depend on geologic productivity. This suggests that some mineral owners, such as those that are high-income or …

discuss some implications of the big shift for pay, productivity, and the pace of innovation. Over the next five years, U …

Persistence of sharecropping tenancy and increases in farm productivity following regulations protecting tenant rights … model always results in (incentive constrained) surplus-maximizing productivity, so there can be no scope for tenancy … regulations to raise productivity. In the incomplete contract model, tenancy regulations would raise productivity only if the …