Search Results - subject:"Worker productivity"

The importance of informal learning at work : on-the-job learning is more important for workers' human capital development than formal training

Grip, Andries de - 2024

Although early human capital theory recognized the relevance of workers' experience, its focus was on education and formal training. More recent studies show that much of the performance of newly hired workers is driven by learning by doing or learning from peers or supervisors in the workplace....

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Worker productivity during Covid-19 and adaptation to working from home

Burdett, Ashley; Etheridge, Ben; Tang, Li; Wang, Yikai - 2023

We examine reported productivity changes of workers over the course of the Covid-19 pandemic, which we validate against external metrics. On average, workers report being at least as productive as before the pandemic's onset. However, this average masks substantial heterogeneity, which is linked...

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Air pollution and worker productivity : higher levels of air pollution reduce worker productivity, even when air quality is generally low

Neidell, Matthew; Pestel, Nico - 2023

lead to improvements in worker productivity at the micro level across a range of sectors, including agriculture …

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Peer effects in the workplace : a network approach

Lindquist, Matthew J.; Sauermann, Jan; Zenou, Yves - 2022

We study both endogenous and exogenous peer effects in worker productivity using an explicit network approach. We apply … productivity by 5.3%. A 10% increase in average co-worker permanent productivity decreases worker productivity by 3.2%. Older … workers, low tenure workers, and low-permanent productivity workers respond the most to changes in co-worker productivity …

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The impact of absent coworkers on productivity in teams

Hoey, Sam; Peeters, Thomas; Ours, Jan C. van - 2022

We study how workers in production teams are affected by the temporary absence and replacement of a coworker. When a substitute coworker is absent, the remaining coworkers produce less output per working time. They compensate for this by increasing their working time at the expense of the (less...

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