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The Effect of Employment Protection on Worker Effort: A Comparison of Absenteeism During and After Probation

Ichino, Andrea; Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003

and in particular to assess whether the provision of employment protection induces more absenteeism among workers. Our …

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Biological Gender Differences, Absenteeism and the Earning Gap

Ichino, Andrea; Moretti, Enrico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

In most Western countries illness-related absenteeism is higher among female workers than among male workers. Using the … interpret this as evidence that the menstrual cycle raises female absenteeism. Absences with a 28-day cycle explain a … significant fraction of the male-female absenteeism gap. To investigate the effect of absenteeism on earnings, we use a simple …

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Temporary Contracts and Employee Effort

Engellandt, Axel; Riphahn, Regina - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

Temporary contracts provide employers with a tool to screen potential new employees and have been shown to provide ‘stepping stones’ into permanent employment for workers. For both reasons, workers on temporary contracts have an incentive to provide more effort than permanent employees....

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Worker Absenteeism: An Analysis Using Microdata

Barmby, Tim; Orme, Chris D; Treble, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

This paper presents preliminary findings of a study of worker absenteeism. Our main purpose is to identify the various …

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How Did Japan Catch-Up On The West? A Sectoral Analysis Of Anglo-Japanese Productivity Differences, 1885-2000

Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; Zammit, Nick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

Although Japanese economic growth after the Meiji Restoration is often characterised as a gradual process of trend acceleration, comparison with the United States suggests that catching-up only really started after 1950, due to the unusually dynamic performance of the US economy before 1950. A...

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The Effects of Permanent Technology Shocks on Labour Productivity and Hours in the RBC Model

Lindé, Jesper - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Recent work on the effects of permanent technology shocks argue that the basic RBC model cannot account for a negative correlation between hours worked and labour productivity. In this Paper, I show that this conjecture is not necessarily correct. In the basic RBC model, I find that hours worked...

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Innovation, Machine Replacement and Productivity

Licandro, Omar; Illera, Maroto; Reyes, María; Puch, Luis - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

This paper explores the role of replacement and innovation in shaping investment and productivity during episodes of lumpy adjustment in capital. To this purpose we use a rich firm-level panel of Spanish manufacturing data that combines information on equipment investment and firm's strategies....

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Information Technology, Efficient Restructuring and the Productivity Puzzle

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Labour productivity in the US has recently grown more strongly than in most European countries. It is often argued that the American productivity increase is due to the widespread introduction of new information and communication technologies (ICT). But why have the same technologies not...

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Wages and Productivity Growth in a Dynamic Monopoly

Bester, Helmut; Petrakis, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

This Paper studies the inter-temporal problem of a monopolistic firm that engages in productivity-enhancing innovations to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches the rate of wage growth and eventually the firm reaches...

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Performance-Related Pay

Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

The paper extends the theoretical approach in Lazear (1986, 1996) to show that jobs with performance related pay (PRP) attract workers of higher unobservable ability, and also induce workers to provide greater effort. We then test some of the predictions of this model against data from the...

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