foreign competitors. In International Differences in the Business Practices and Productivity of Firms, a distinguished group … Productivity of Firms offers a much-needed model for measuring the productivity and performance of international firms in a fast …

engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …

piece rates to motivate workers, which induced relatively high productivity. But, faced with severe foreign competition, it … switched to time rates and associated managerial policies, which produced higher profits despite lowering productivity. The … offset a fall in productivity. Data for shoe manufacturing from the Longitudinal Research Data (LRD) files of the U.S. Census …

This paper summarized some new evidence concerning the impact of collective bargaining on productivity for workers of a … productive than those that are nonunion. This positive union productivity effect is not an immutable constant. For example,in the … were significantly more productive in 1965.The routes by which unions affect productivity have not yet been carefully …

agents in a highly non-linear incentive system, we find that the improvement in productivity far outweighed the costs … accordingly focus more on the productivity-enhancing than on the distortionary effects …

and productivity : direct estimates -- 4. Unions and productivity growth -- 5. Unions and productivity : investment … channels -- 6. Unions and productivity : employee behavior channels -- 7. Unions and financial performance of firms -- 8 …