Similar Search Results

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher T. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

How and by how much do supervisors enhance worker productivity? Using a company-based data set on the productivity of technology-based services workers, supervisor effects are estimated and found to be large. Replacing a boss who is in the lower 10% of boss quality with one who is in the upper...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011096841

Information Technology, Organization, and Productivity in the Public Sector: Evidence from Police Departments

Garicano, Luis; Heaton, Paul - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2007

We examine how information technology (IT) contributes to organizational change, labor demand, and improved productivity in the public sector using a new panel data set of police departments covering 1987-2003. While IT adoption is associated with increased administrative and organizational...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670425

Does High Involvement Management Lead to Higher Pay?

Bryson, Alex; Böckerman, Petri; Ilmakunnas, Pekka - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories we find wage effects of high involvement management (HIM) practices are generally positive and significant. However, employees with better wage and work histories are more...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854565

Is There an Impact of Household Computer Ownership on Childrens Educational Attainment in Britain?

Schmitt, John; Wadsworth, Jonathan - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2004

If personal computers (PCs) are used to enhance learning and information gathering across avariety of subjects, then a home computer might reasonably be considered an input in aneducational production function. Using data on British youths from the British HouseholdPanel Survey between 1991 and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151041

The Long-Term Consequences of Regional Specialization

Michaels, Guy - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2006

What are the consequences of resource-based regional specialization, when it persists over a long period of time? While … much of the literature argues that specialization is beneficial, recent work suggests it may be costly in the long run, due … from specialization were large, and specialization had little impact on the fraction of total income spent by local …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005797227

Making Do With Less: Working Harder During Recessions

Lazear, Edward P.; Shaw, Kathryn L.; Stanton, Christopher - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014

Why did productivity rise during recent recessions? One possibility is that average worker quality increased. A second is that each incumbent worker produced more. The second effect is termed "making do with less." Using data from 2006 to 2010 on individual worker productivity from a large firm,...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099877

Managers' Mobility, Trade Status and Wages

Mion, Giordano; Opromolla, Luca David - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms' international trade status and to what extent this relationship is of a causal nature. We construct a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854563

Interim Rank, Risk Taking and Performance in Dynamic Tournaments

Genakos, Christos; Pagliero, Mario - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2009

Little is known about the effects of revealing information on relative performance during a dynamic tournament. We empirically study the impact of interim rank on risk taking and performance using data on professionals competing in tournaments for large rewards. As our data allows us to observe...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005256482

HRM Practices and Knowledge Processes Outcomes: Empirical Evidence from a Quasi-Experiment on UK SMEs in the Tourism Hospitality and Leisure Sector

Georgiadis, Andreas; Pitelis, Christos N. - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2008

This paper presents empirical evidence of the relationship between human resources practices and the effectiveness of a firm to capitalise on investment in knowledge as measured by the returns to innovation and business development expenditure. The empirical design is based on exploiting a...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005151049

A Simple Theory of Managerial Talent, Pay Contracts and Wage Distribution

Wu, Yanhui - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2011

This paper develops a simple theory of pay structures and pay levels across heterogeneous agents by bringing together optimal contracts inside the firm and competitive resource allocation in the market. The central idea is that more talented people tend to create greater value but face larger...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220237

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last