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  • Stefan Bender, Nicholas Bloom, David Card, John Van Reenen, and Stefanie Wolter, Firms and the Distribution of Income: The Roles of Productivity and Luck (Journal of Labor Economics, volume 36, number S1, 2015), chap. 8, https://www.nber.org/books-and-chapters/firms-and-distribution-income-roles-productivity-and-luck/management-practices-workforce-selection-and-productivity.

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