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Green innovations and organisational change: making better use of environmental technology
Hottenrott, Hanna; Rexhäuser, Sascha; Veugelers, Reinhilde - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. …
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The Thatcher Miracle?
Layard, Richard Grenville; Nickell, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
Since 1979 productivity growth in Britain has improved markedly compared with Europe. The turnaround in productivity …
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British Economic Growth Before and After 1979: A Review of the Evidence
Crafts, Nicholas - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1988
leading to poor productivity performance are the most plausible explanation of Britain's relative decline. It is argued both …
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Ten Years of Mrs. T.
Bean, Charles R; Symons, James - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989
, explains the initial rise in unemployment. The reduction in union power also helps to explain the acceleration in productivity … low wages and productivity. A fall in union power results in a reduction in these inefficiencies and leads not only to a … rise in productivity but also in wages. …
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Net Energy Expenditure and Energy Demand in the UK
Pearce, David; Westoby, Richard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985
productivity. It does not appear to have any special advantage over other measures for forecasting applications. …
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The Flattening Firm and Product Market Competition
Guadalupe, Maria; Wulf, Julie - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
This paper establishes a causal effect of product market competition on various characteristics of organizational design. Using a unique panel dataset on firm hierarchies of large U.S. firms (1986-1999) and a quasi-natural experiment (trade liberalization), we find that increasing competition...
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Inequality of Earnings
Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the US over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained. Finally,...
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Technological Change, Organizational Change, and Job Turnover
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
This Paper uses a German employer-employee matched panel dataset to investigate the effect of organizational and technological changes on gross job and worker flows. The empirical results indicate that organizational change is skill-biased because it reduces predominantly net employment growth...
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Flexible Wages Systems and the Structure of Wages: Evidence from Matched Employer-Employee Data
Bauer, Thomas; Bender, Stefan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
A growing theoretical and empirical literature is concerned with the effects of flexible workplace systems or High Performance Work Organizations (HPWOs) on wages. Existing theoretical literature suggests that these forms of organization should lead to higher inequality across firms, increased...
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Multitasking and Wages
Görlich, Dennis; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
This paper sheds light on how changes in the organization of work can help to understand increasing wage inequality. We present a theoretical model in which workers with a wider span of competence (higher level of multitasking) earn a wage premium. Since abilities and opportunities to expand the...
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