Low pay poses issues for managers internationally. We examine productivity in low-paying sectors in Britain, since the … National Minimum Wage's (NMW) introduction. We use a multiple channel analytical strategy, emphasising the wage-incentives … channel and linking it to a model of unobserved productivity. We estimate firm-specific productivity measures and aggregate …

markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …

-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining institutions (Wage Dynamic Network, WDN) with data on firm productivity …

-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining institutions (Wage Dynamic Network, WDN) with data on firm productivity …

-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining institutions (Wage Dynamic Network, WDN) with data on firm productivity …

-distributed database which merges data related to wage bargaining institutions (Wage Dynamic Network, WDN) with data on firm productivity …

This paper studies how asymmetric information over inputs affects workers' response to incentives and self-selection at … input quality and worker type. Firm profits increase differentially from high productivity workers, but absenteeism and … and managers shape the response to incentives and self-selection at the workplace. …