This study examines the effect of the CEO-employee pay gap on productivity and performance. Using extensive data of 751 … differential and corporate productivity, with a rising gap adversely affecting productivity principally when it is both too low, as … well as too high; intermediate pay inequality levels are less influential. A contrast in the productivity effects of the …

that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests … that firm-level agreements benefit to both employers and employees - through higher productivity and wages - without being …

productivity slowdown. Since productivity growth is recognized as being by far the most important long-term source of sustainable … developments raise a number of issues related to the two-way linkages between productivity and well-being. First, does slower … productivity growth constitute a significant threat to the betterment of the well-being of the world's population, and, if so, by …