's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …

This study investigates induced productivity effects of firms introducing new environmental technologies. The … literature on within-firm organisational change and productivity suggests that firms can achieve higher productivity gains from … associated with lower productivity, the simultaneous implementation of green technologies and organisational innovations is not. …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e., the ‘control … very important-but specific-function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity growth …

-level characteristics including productivity. …