Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/24799 
Year of Publication: 
2002
Series/Report no.: 
ZEW Discussion Papers No. 02-07
Publisher: 
Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW), Mannheim
Abstract: 
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 both unobserved heterogeneity and endogeneity using establishment panel data for Germany. We show that increasing employee participation enhances firm productivity in Germany, whereas incentive systems do not foster productivity. Our results further indicate that firms with structural productivity problems tend to introduce organisational changes that increase employee participation whereas well performing firms are more likely to offer incentives.
Subjects: 
high performance workplaces
microeconometric evaluation
firm productivity
panel regression
JEL: 
D24
M12
C23
D23
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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