Employee involvement and financial incentives are often praised as effective means for increasing firm productivity. We … assess the productivity effects of these human resource practices by accounting for the main sources of estimation bias … employee involvement raises establishment productivity, but financial incentive systems do not. An important result is that …

performance of a panel of 10,650 firms operating in Romania in the period 1995-2001. Controlling for the simultaneity bias in … productivity estimates through semi-parametric techniques, we find that changes in domestic firms' TFP are positively related to …

High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical … evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for … participation enhances firm productivity in Germany, whereas incentive systems do not foster productivity. Our results further …

From a theoretical perspective the link between the speed and scope of rapid labor reallocation and productivity growth … or income inequality is ambiguous. Do reallocations with more flows tend to produce higher productivity growth? Does such … flows in the period of massive and rapid labor reallocation, i.e. the economic transition from a centrally planned to a …

productivity. However, the dispersion of firms' productivity shocks has decreased too. To enhance our understanding of these … patterns, we derive a firm-level framework that relates changes in firms' productivity, market power, and technology to job …

We develop a procedure to estimate production functions, elasticities of demand, and productivity when firms …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

Labor productivity (LP) in the United States has gone from being procyclical to acyclical since the mid-1980s. Using … industry-level data, this paper first shows that total factor productivity (TFP), which is LP net of capital deepening, has … reasons for the change in the cyclicality of productivity. By decomposing TFP into technical change and input utilization, it …