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Allocation of Human Capital and Innovation at the Frontier : Firm-Level Evidence on Germany and the Netherlands

Bartelsman, Eric J. - 2015

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation …

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Working Hours and Productivity

Collewet, Marion - 2017

This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to...

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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis : Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice - 2009

This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...

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Human Resources and Innovation : Total Factor Productivity and Foreign Human Capital

Fassio, Claudio - 2015

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

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Innovation, Productivity, and Training

Dostie, Benoit - 2015

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …

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Leadership and the Research Productivity of University Departments

Goodall, Amanda H. - 2014

Much of human knowledge is produced in the world's university departments. There is little scientific evidence, however, about how those hundreds of thousands of departments are best organized and led. This study hand-collects longitudinal data on departmental chairpersons in 58 US universities...

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Organizational Redesign, Information Technologies and Workplace Productivity

Dostie, Benoit; Jayaraman, Rajshri - 2021

Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains associated with computer use and organizational redesign. The empirical strategy involves the estimation of a production function, augmented to account for technology use and...

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Managers and Productivity Differences

Guner, Nezih - 2016

We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...

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What Does Codetermination Do?

Jäger, Simon; Noy, Shakked; Schoefer, Benjamin - 2022

We provide a comprehensive overview of codetermination, i.e., worker representation in firms' governance and management. We cover the institution's history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue that existing quasi-experimental estimates suggest that...

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Productivity Dynamics : The Role of Competition in a Service Industry

Breda, Thomas - 2019

Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches which compete with one another for union members whose...

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