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. …

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 …

trading. Such measures can reduce emissions cost-effectively and create incentives for technological development. There is … been too low to create the incentives necessary to stimulate technological development. This paper empirically analyzes how … the Swedish carbon dioxide tax and the EU ETS have affected productivity development in the Swedish pulp and paper …

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 …

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 …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

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 …