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. These findings suggest that small groups provide productivity gains over large groups. Further, they suggest that the lack …
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number of remote workers on a team. Our results suggest that work location alone does not lead to productivity differences … traditional office; a problem that is potentially exacerbated if employees work in a revenue-sharing team environment. Using a …-experiment incentivized survey evidence points to expectations of partner productivity as a contributing factor …
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We investigate the factors driving workers' decisions to generate public goods inside an organization through a randomized solicitation of workplace improvement proposals in a medical center with 1200 employees. We find that pecuniary incentives, such as winning a prize, generate a threefold...
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We present evidence on the labor supply of CEOs, and on whether family and professional CEOs differ on this dimension. We do so through a new survey instrument that allows us to codify CEOs' diaries in a detailed and comparable fashion, and to build a bottom-up measure of CEO labor supply. The...
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, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …
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Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study … uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity … rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately two-fifths of the productivity rebound occurring in New Economy …
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Starting from the same level of productivity and per-capita income as the United States in the mid-nineteenth century … productivity has almost converged, its income per person has leveled off at about three-quarters of America's. How could Europe be …
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Over the postwar, the U.S., Europe and Japan have experienced what may be thought of as medium frequency oscillations between persistent periods of robust growth and persistent periods of relative stagnation. These medium frequency movements, further, appear to bear some relation to the high...
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This study uses state-level variation in labor productivity levels at twenty-year intervals between 1880 and 1980 to … differences in state productivity levels: states with navigable waterways, a large minerals endowment, and no slaves in 1860, on … average, had higher labor productivity levels throughout the sample period. However, we find little support for two other …
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of the late 1990s does not doom productivity growth to slip back to the dismal pre-1995 era. Instead, we argue that … conventional analyses have exaggerated the contribution of ICT investment to the post-1995 productivity performance. Productivity … ICT production to economy-wide productivity growth, the paper cites four reasons to suspect that standard analyses have …
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