The study examines US-European productivity and worker attitude differences, focusing on changes in incentive … structures. We analyze productivity and worker attitudes in five plants in the UK and US belonging to the same multinational … had an impact on productivity and profitability. We find that the UK plant's productivity and worker satisfaction was well …

A key tenet of the theory of human capital is that investment in skills results in higher productivity. The previous … proxy for productivity growth. In this paper, we have both wage and personal productivity data, and thus are able to measure …-tenure profiles. The pattern of productivity rising more rapidly than pay reverses after two years of tenure. Worker selection is also …

unobserved by the firm and cannot be directly contracted upon. Firms differ in productivity by which they employ workers. Firms … general human capital training. It is shown that more productive firms provide more training and pay higher wages. …

untested implication of many theories rationalizing the growth of within-group inequality is that firm-level productivity … manufacturing and non-manufacturing sectors since the early 1980s. We find evidence that productivity inequality has increased … between firms (and within industries). Increased productivity dispersion appears to be linked with new technologies as …

Hierarchies allow individuals to leverage their knowledge through others' time. This mechanism increases productivity …-Hansberg (2006) to assess how much lawyers' productivity and the distribution of earnings across lawyers reflects lawyers' ability to … productivity and earnings distributions in this industry is substantial but not dramatic, reflecting the fact that the problems …