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Labour Use and Its Adjustment in Indian Manufacturing Industries
Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005
assume that as competition increases industries adjust their employment to a desired level which is both industry and time … manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233871
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Improving the Labor Market Outcomes of Minorities: The Role of Employment Quota
Prakash, Nishith - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
exists in India. This paper exploits the institutional features of federally mandated employment quota policy to examine its …The world's biggest and arguably most aggressive form of employment based affirmative action policy for minorities … effect on labor market outcomes of two distinct minority groups. My main finding is that employment quota significantly in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005015471
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Are All Labor Regulations Equal? Evidence from Indian Manufacturing
Ahsan, Ahmad; Pagés, Carmen - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Using manufacturing data for India, this paper studies the economic effects of legal amendments on two types of labor … laws: employment protection and labor dispute resolution legislation. We find that laws that increase employment protection … or the cost of labor disputes substantially reduce registered sector employment and output. These laws do no seem to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762115
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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance
Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We explore the relationship between employee trust of managers and workplace performance. We present a theoretical framework which serves to establish a link between employee trust and firm performance as well as to identify possible mechanisms through which the relationship may operate. We then...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959547
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Are Occupations Paid What They Are Worth? An Econometric Study of Occupational Wage Inequality and Productivity
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Labour economists typically assume that pay differences between occupations can be explained with variations in productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential biases. The authors use matched employer-employee panel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293741
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Employment Concentration and Resource Allocation: One-Company Towns in Russia
Commander, Simon; Nikoloski, Zlatko; Plekhanov, Alexander - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The paper looks at the effects of employment concentration on resource allocation with a particular focus on one …-company towns in Russia defined as towns where a single company accounts for a significant share of total employment of the locality … the dominance of natural resources in the Russian economy and employment concentration is closely linked. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325440
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Foreign Direct Investment, Black Economic Empowerment and Labour Productivity in South Africa
Mebratie, Anagaw Derseh; Bedi, Arjun S. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
The impact of foreign direct investment (FDI) on domestically owned firms in developing countries has been widely debated in the literature. It has been argued that FDI provides access to advanced technologies and other intangible assets which may spill over to the host country and allow...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009353425
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How to Avoid a Pension Crisis: A Question of Intelligent System Design
Cigno, Alessandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009
Conventional pension systems suffer from a design defect which makes them financially unsustainable, and a source of inefficiency for the economy as a whole. The paper outlines a second-best policy which includes a public pension system made up of two parallel schemes, a Bismarckian one allowing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008632739
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Exports and Productivity Growth: First Evidence from a Continuous Treatment Approach
Fryges, Helmut; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
A recent survey of 54 micro-econometric studies reveals that exporting firms are more productive than non-exporters. On the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible reason for this result is that most previous studies are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822920
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Unions, Training, and Firm Performance
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822940