Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …

labor productivity effects with a representative sample of Finnish businesses. Depending on the IT task in question, on … findings nevertheless suggest that IT outsourcing may have significant economic consequences. -- Labor productivity …

Employee involvement and financial incentives are often praised as effective means for increasing firm productivity. We … assess the productivity effects of these human resource practices by accounting for the main sources of estimation bias … employee involvement raises establishment productivity, but financial incentive systems do not. An important result is that …

Theory predicts that the interaction type within a team moderates the impact of talent disparity on team productivity …

High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical … evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for … participation enhances firm productivity in Germany, whereas incentive systems do not foster productivity. Our results further …

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth … or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such … flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …

Focusing on labour productivity and working conditions, we investigate the benefits of industrial zones for private … manufacturing enterprises in Myanmar. We find that being located in an industrial zone associates with higher labour productivity …. Value added gains, however, are not transferred to employees. The results are robust to different measures of productivity …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

productivity. Initial results show that knowledge-based capital has a positive effect on productivity of comparable magnitude for …