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Productivity has rebounded in the last decade while manufacturing employment has declined sharply. The present study … uses data on industrial output and employment to examine the sources of these trends. It finds that the productivity … rebound since 1995 has been widespread, with approximately two-fifths of the productivity rebound occurring in New Economy …
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This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …
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We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
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high-wage workers to low-wage workers and to non-workers, reduce total factor productivity about one percent, reduce per …
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. These findings suggest that small groups provide productivity gains over large groups. Further, they suggest that the lack …
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A growing body of literature examines the cross price elasticities between different health care services. For example, increasing the patient out of pocket price for some health care services increases the utilization of other health care services. Yet, the literature has generally ignored the...
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worker productivity in the facility. Using a natural field experiment, we report several insights. For example, conditional … incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more …%: that is, total team productivity is enhanced by 1% purely due to the framing manipulation. Importantly, we find that …
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marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate … developed countries follows a distinct pattern. On the one hand, wage premiums exceed productivity premiums for general human … capital characteristics (tenure and training), even though these have a clear productivity effect …
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that average productivity rises, that the firm will attract a more able work force and that the variance in output across … structures between 1994 and 1995. All theoretical predictions are borne out. In the firm examined, the productivity effects are … worker-specific increase in productivity is passed on to workers in the form of higher wages …
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