country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a … of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

We explore whether the introduction of trust based working hours is related to the subsequent innovation performance of … adoption of trust based working hours and innovation seems to be driven by the degree of control and self-management over …

on age and gender) and its performance with respect to innovative activities (outlays and employment in research and …

-centers, trucking, and high-tech (software). Referred workers are 10-30% less likely to quit and have substantially higher performance … characteristics and similar performance on non-rare metrics. To identify the source of these behavioral differences, we develop four …

individual level, examining the relationship between religiosity and a broad set of pro- or anti-innovation attitudes in all five … waves of the World Values Survey (1980 to 2005). We thus relate eleven indicators of individual openness to innovation … innovation. …

capital is positively influenced by the size of the R&D sector, sheds new light on innovation and growth as well as income …

survival, but lag behind regular business founders in terms of income, business growth and innovation. Moreover, we show that …

The effect of collective bargaining on innovation has long been in dispute. At the level of theory, the hold-up problem … impact of collective bargaining on (several measures of) process innovation and product innovation. Our cross section and … longitudinal analysis fails to indicate that unionism retards innovation. Indeed, in conjunction with workplace representation …

Immigrants are widely perceived as being highly entrepreneurial and important for economic growth and innovation. This …