The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive … structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational … had an impact on productivity and profitability. We find that the UK plant's productivity and worker satisfaction was well …

"Economists have shown that large and persistent differences in productivity levels across businesses are ubiquitous … differ in their measured productivity levels. The causes are manifold, and differ depending on the particular setting. They …

"Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment …