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 …

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 …

and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … the findings of existing research, increasing the power of group-based financial incentives does not reduce the positive … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …

This paper studies learning within organizations when incentives change. We use a simple principal-agent model to show …

; occupations ; wages ; productivity …

This paper analyses the effect of innovation on the well-established productivity-export association in the literature …. Here, we argue that actively innovative firms have a higher productivity, which make them more likely to become exporters … further, which may facilitate future productivity. We use the micro-data from two waves of Swedish Community Innovation Survey …

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …