's productivity. Using data from a major transitional economy, China, we find that relative pay is negatively associated with high … productivity. Our results provide support for the view that workers are alienated when their incomes are far lower than that of top … management and this leads to lower productivity. This effect is most pronounced in labor intensive firms. …

I propose a new explanation for the large productivity gaps between agriculture and nonagriculture observed in … two-sector model in which heterogeneous elasticities of substitution affect relative sectoral productivity levels through … productivity gaps in countries where the share of highly educated workers in the labor force is low. …

Using data envelopment analysis and the Malmquist productivity index, this paper studies productivity efficiency of … productivity efficiency of non-state-owned airlines improves rapidly and eventually exceeds state-owned airlines after the … deregulation policy. Among the state-owned airlines, the productivity of the local airlines and their technical changes are better …

firms, which makes the upstream firms more capital intensive. (2). Both productivity and profitability are higher for these …

This paper studies the role of technology spillovers in productivity growth of OECD countries looking at investments in … advanced capital (ICT and R&D) influence total factor productivity (TFP) over the long run: the former effect derives from … suggests that: (i) investing in ICT capital delivers significant productivity benefits, (ii) domestic production of ICT goods …

evidence for a reaction of wage growth to unemployment and productivity growth. The degree of real wage flexibility tends to be …

productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms … from globalisation on firms' R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …

will impact on efficiency as well as productivity, yet researchers usually assume a production process that is fully … relations on efficiency as well as productivity, in a sample of French equipment manufacturing firms. The results show that … tends to have a negative impact on both efficiency and productivity, but this is reversed for firms that adopt many HRM …