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Manufacturers' Outsourcing to Employment Services
Dey, Matthew; Houseman, Susan; Polivka, Anne - W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment Research - 2006
manufacturers' outsourcing to employment services significantly inflated manufacturing labor productivity measures, accounting for 0 … should adjust for such outsourcing, available evidence suggests that KLEMS, the multifactor productivity measure for … manufacturing, does not fully capture the relatively large effects that outsourcing to staffing services has on manufacturing …
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Recent trends in productivity in China : shift-share analysis of labour productivity growth and the evolution of the productivity gap
Molnár, Margit; Chalaux, Thomas - 2015
The Chinese economy has been undergoing fundamental structural changes since the start of reforms in 1978. An increasing number of farmers first got engaged in off-farm activities and then started to migrate to cities in the 1990s in search of jobs. Such movement of labour from less to more...
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The human side of productivity : Uncovering the role of skills and diversity for firm productivity
Criscuolo, Chiara - 2021
Relying on linked employer-employee datasets from 10 countries, this paper documents that the skills and the diversity of the workforce and of managers – the human side of businesses – account on average for about one third of the labour productivity gap between firms at the productivity...
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The plant life-cycle of the average wage of employees in US manufacturing
Dinlersoz, Emin; Hyatt, Henry R.; Nguyen, Sang V. - In: IZA Journal of Labor Economics 2 (2013), pp. 1-23
This paper explores the evolution of the average wage of employees over the life-cycle of a manufacturing plant. The average wage starts out low for a new plant and increases along with labor productivity as the plant ages. As a plant approaches exit, its average wage falls, but more slowly than...
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The dynamics of labor productivity in Swiss universities
Bolli, Thomas; Farsi, Mehdi - 2011
This paper analyzes the labor productivity of Swiss university departments between 1995 and 2007. Using a parametric input distance function we estimate and decompose the Malmquist productivity indexes in line with Fuentes et al. (2001) and Atkinson et al. (2003). By contrast to those studies,...
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Productivity and human capital : The Italian case
Andretta, Camilla - 2021
This paper investigates whether and how worker composition, ownership and management affect the productivity of firms. To this aim, we use a dataset obtained by integrating the micro-data drawn from Rilevazione su Imprese e Lavoro (RIL), a survey conducted by Inapp in 2010 and 2015 on a...
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Digital technology adoption, productivity gains in adopting firms and sectoral spill-overs : firm-level evidence from Estonia
Mosiashvili, Natia; Pareliussen, Jon - 2020
With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
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Seizing the productive potential of digital change in Estonia
Azzopardi, Damien; Lenain, Patrick; Molnár, Margit; … - 2020
Technologies such as cloud computing, software to automate supplier- and customer relations, online platforms and artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over...
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Boosting productivity in Finland
André, Christophe; Chalaux, Thomas - 2016
Boosting productivity growth is necessary to raise living standards and well-being for all. Aggregate productivity has fallen, mainly driven by manufacturing, although service industries have also tended to underperform. Reviving productivity requires improving framework conditions further so...
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Fear the walking dead : zombie firms, spillovers and exit barriers
Gouveia, Ana Fontoura; Osterhold, Christian - 2018
Productivity growth is slowing down among OECD countries, coupled with increased misallocation of resources. A recent strand of literature focuses on the role of non-viable firms (“zombie firms”) to explain these developments. Using a rich firm-level dataset for one of the OECD countries...
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