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. Another critical condition is required for this to generatehigher productivity: complementarity of worker and firm quality in … the production function. Usingestablishment level productivity regressions, we show that such complementarity is found in … assortativematching is an important source of the urban productivity premium. …
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, employee share ownership, and stock options—and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the UK … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization. …
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poorer labour productivity than nonunion voice and, in particular, direct voice. On the other hand, union-based voice regimes …
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markets explain both productivity differences and firm density. Estimating structural model parameters is simple and relies on … model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …
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the gender wage gap as a reflection of men's greater strength and correspondingly higher productivity. This paper … fully explained by differences in experience and other productivity-related characteristics. Second, conditioning on those …
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Over 10% of US employees now regularly work from home (WFH), but there is widespread skepticism over its impact highlighted by phrases like "shirking from home". We report the results of a WFH experiment at Ctrip, a 13,000 employee NASDAQ listed Chinese multinational. Call center employees who...
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markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …
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The austerity programme of the coalition government knocked at least one percent per year off growth in the first two years of this Parliament. In retrospect, this looks like a mistake and the slower pace of austerity in 2012 to 2013 and thereafter was welcome (as was the setting up of the...
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UK productivity stagnated after the Great Recession of 2008-09 and remains about 15 percent below historical trends …. This 'productivity puzzle' is due to a mixture of cyclical and structural effects - the fall is not entirely permanent; and …
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John Van Reenen sketches the evolution of CEP research on the drivers of productivity growth - and its impact on …
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