Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …

We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … probably highest, and the panel is too short to capture the likely long run benefits in terms of human capital formation and … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

higher probability of a substantial loss and a reduction of productivity. The productivity effect and the two other effects …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …