relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … level productivity and wage outcomes and estimate production functions and wage equation using both cross sectional and … productivity of establishments. We find that firms that re-engineer their workplaces to incorporate more high performance practices …

controls for both organizational and individual characteristics and finds that higher wages are associated with several …-manufacturing sector. Computer use is a particularly important influence on the wages of managers and supervisors, although it is computer … significant relationship between wages and job rotation where additional analyses suggest that job rotation in isolation from …

During the four years 1995-99 U. S. productivity growth experienced a strong revival and achieved growth rates … transport, motion pictures, radio, indoor plumbing, and made the golden age of productivity growth possible. This paper raises … doubts about the validity of this comparison with the Great Inventions of the past. It dissects the recent productivity …

expansion, a stock market boom, a financing boom for new firms and productivity gains. In this paper, we propose an … production. We show that the mere prospect of high future productivity growth can generate sizable gains in current productivity …

The present study is the third in a series of three papers devoted to issues in the measurement of productivity and … productivity growth. The major findings are as follows. First, this study shows that the new data set used here, which develops … useful supplement to existing data sets. Second, there has clearly been a rebound in labor-productivity growth in recent …

revolution began, however, several decades passed before measured productivity growth increased. This delay is paradoxical from …

Complementing existing work on firm organizational structure and productivity, this paper examines the impact of …

the impact of workplace practices, information technology and human capital investments on productivity. We estimate an … within and GMM estimators. We find that what is associated with higher productivity is not so much whether or not an employer … practices that promote joint decision making coupled with incentive based compensation have higher productivity than other …

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 …

We develop an empirical framework to assess the importance of trade and technical change on the wages of production and … outsourcing and expenditures on high-technology equipment can explain a substantial amount of the increase in the wages of … our benchmark assumption that industry prices are independent of productivity. When we allow for the endogeneity of …