Does Management Matter? Evidence From India
A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this the authors ran a management field experiment on large...
View ArticleImmigration And The Occupational Choice Of Natives: A Factor Proportions...
This paper evaluates the impact of immigration on the labor market outcomes of natives in France over the period 1962-1999. Combining large (up to 25%) extracts from six censuses and data from Labor...
View ArticleManagers~ Mobility, Trade Status And Wages
This paper investigates whether the arrival of managers with export experience, i.e. experience acquired through participation in the export activity of previous employers, is related to firms'...
View ArticleSeesaw In The Air: Interconnection Regulation And The Structure Of Mobile...
Interconnection rates are a key variable in telecommunications markets. Every call that is placed must be terminated by the network of the receiving party, thus the termination end has the...
View ArticleDoes High Involvement Management Lead To Higher Pay?
Using nationally representative survey data for Finnish employees linked to register data on their wages and work histories, the authors find wage effects of High Involvement Management (HIM) practices...
View ArticlePriors And Desires: A Model Of Payoff-dependent Beliefs
Whatever a person wants to be true affects what she believes to be true, and consequently the decisions she makes. This paper introduces an axiomatic model of decision making that allows for this...
View ArticleSpinning Welfare: The Gains From Process Innovation In Cotton And Car Production
Economists and economic historians want to know how much better life is today than in the past. Fifty years ago economic historians found surprisingly small gains from 19th century US railroads, while...
View ArticleMoney And Happiness: Evidence From The Industry Wage Structure
There is a well-established positive correlation between life-satisfaction measures and income in individual level cross-sectional data. This paper attempts to provide some evidence on whether this...
View ArticleThe Impact Of Chernobyl On Health And Labour Market Performance
Using longitudinal data from Ukraine the authors examine the extent of any long-lasting effects of radiation exposure from the Chernobyl disaster on the health and labour market performance of the...
View ArticleGender, Productivity And The Nature Of Work And Pay: Evidence From The Late...
Women have, on average, been less well-paid than men throughout history. Prior to 1900, most economic historians see the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly...
View ArticleCommunal Responsibility And The Coexistence Of Money And Credit Under...
Communal responsibility, a medieval institution studied by Greif (2006), supported the use of credit among European merchants in the absence of modern enforcement technologies. This paper shows how...
View ArticleDoes Competition Raise Productivity Through Improving Management Quality?
A classic question in industrial organization is whether competition raises productivity and if so, through what mechanism? The author discusses recent empirical evidence from both large-scale...
View ArticleIndividualisation And Growing Diversity Of Employment Relationships
At a time when the economic recession is more severe, and trade unions are weaker, than at any time since the War, it would be unproductive to speculate about the extent to which these changes have...
View ArticleImport Competition From And Outsourcing To China: A Curse Or Blessing For Firms?
The authors use Belgian manufacturing firm-level data over the period 1996- 2007 to analyze the impact of imports from different origins on firm growth, exit, and skill upgrading. For this purpose they...
View ArticleAnatomy Of A Paradox: Management Practices, Organisational Structure And...
This paper presents new evidence on managerial and organizational factors that explain firm level energy efficiency and TFP. The authors interviewed managers of 190 randomly selected manufacturing...
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