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Bloom, Nicholas; Sadun, Raffaella; Van Reenen, John - 2016

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … cross-country total factor productivity differences. …

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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity

Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

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Managing trade : evidence from China and the US

Bloom, Nicholas; Manova, Kalina; Van Reenen, John; Sun, … - 2018

We present a heterogeneous-firm model in which management ability increases both pro- duction efficiency and product quality. Combining six micro-datasets on management prac- tices, production and trade in Chinese and American firms, we find broad support for the model's predictions. First,...

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