We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … productivity increase (1.31%) and a decrease in weekly hours worked (4%). Finally, the full flexibility scenario preserves …

effect of attractiveness within occupations in order to provide more evidence on its productivity-enhancing channel of …

, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 …-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers affect the productivity of firms and test for the … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …

Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity … profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …

We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking the Annual Business … as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …

the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …