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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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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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that average productivity rises, that the firm will attract a more able work force and that the variance in output across … structures between 1994 and 1995. All theoretical predictions are borne out. In the firm examined, the productivity effects are … worker-specific increase in productivity is passed on to workers in the form of higher wages …
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The dismal decade of 2010-19 recorded the slowest productivity growth of any decade in U.S. history, only 1.1 percent … per year in the business sector. Yet the pandemic appears to have created a resurgence in productivity growth with a 4 ….1 percent rate achieved in the four quarters of 2020. This paper provides a unified framework that explains productivity growth …
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the labor productivity of workers across the age distribution, while one-third arises from slower labor force growth. Our …
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We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …
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engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …
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harmonized cross-country and industry data, where we measure automation as industry-level movements in total factor productivity …
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