productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the … introduction of collective performance related pay significantly increases productivity by around 3-5 per cent, but such effect … type of parameters used - is also relevant for firm productivity. …

Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions … 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 …

The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …

productivity so the paper examines the link between unions and productivity finding only a small association by the end of the 1990 …

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring … countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage … distribution within these three economies. The findings suggest that the political economy of unions, coupled with market …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …-level (EU-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions about technology and market structure (firms …

Using a rich sample of admission records from New Orleans Touro Infirmary, we examine the in-hospital mortality risk of … likely to die in the hospital than the whites. We analyze the determinants of in-hospital mortality at Touro using Oaxaca … based on the selective hospital admission of slaves. …

competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms … face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity distribution of all potential opponents reduces competition failures by more than 50%, (2) information on the …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory …