We study the impact of social identity on worker competition by exploiting the exogenous variations in workers' origins and the well-documented social divide between urban resident workers and rural migrant workers in large urban Chinese firms. We analyze data on weekly output, individual...

IZA DP No. 3132 Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and Competitive Pressure Arghya Ghosh Takao Kato Hodaka Morita DISCUSSION P APER SERIES Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit Institute for the Study of Labor October 2007 Discrete Innovation, Continuous Improvement, and...

Ownership and decision-making are key issues in current debates among corporate, labor, and policy leaders. This volume contains cutting-edge research on the causes and effects of financial and decision-making participation around the globe, plus theory and thought pieces on the meaning and...

Cover -- Editorial -- The response of majority employee-owned firms during the pandemic compared to other firms -- Member surveys on employee ownership and the COVID-19 pandemic -- When workers matter most: a study of worker cooperatives and the prioritization of workers through COVID-19 -- Race...