performance and the nature of competition in international markets. We develop a model in which firms' organisational choices … determine heterogeneity across firms in size and productivity in the same industry. We then incorporate these organisational … choices in a Krugman cum Melitz and Ottaviano model of international trade. We show that the toughness of competition in a …

introduction of competition on not only clinical outcomes but also productivity and expenditure. We find that the effect of …The effect of competition on the quality of health care remains a contested issue. Most empirical estimates rely on … the impact of competition on hospital outcomes. The English government introduced a policy in 2006 to promote competition …

towards vertical specialization as well as many horizontal mergers. We discuss trends in the productivity of pharmaceutical …

characteristics. In this paper, we use a decade of annual wage and productivity data from New Zealand's Linked Employer … explains less than one-fifth of the overall wage gap. Gender differences in productivity within firms also explain little of … the difference seen in wages. The relationships between the gender wage-productivity gap and both age and tenure are …

competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

characteristics. In this paper, we use a decade of annual wage and productivity data from New Zealand's Linked Employer … explains less than one-fifth of the overall wage gap. Gender differences in productivity within firms also explain little of … the difference seen in wages. The relationships between the gender wage-productivity gap and both age and tenure are …

economy to a low productivity level. These structural characteristics are related not only to cost elements but also to the …

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 … to an improvement in the quality and experience of management. JAQ can be constructed for any employer-employee data …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … management on firm performance; (ii) a positive relationship between product market competition and average management quality … (part of which stems from the larger covariance between management with firm size as competition strengthens); and (iii) a …