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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

measures of workplace performance (financial performance, labour productivity and product or service quality) and employee …

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Strikes, Scabs and Tread Separations: Labor Strife and the Production of Defective Bridgestone/Firestone Tires

Krueger, Alan B.; Mas, Alexandre - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

This paper provides a case study of the effect of labor relations on product quality. We consider whether a long, contentious strike and the hiring of replacement workers at Bridgestone/Firestone’s Decatur plant in the mid-1990s contributed to the production of defective tires. Using several...

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Training, Job Satisfaction and Workplace Performance in Britain: Evidence from WERS 2004

Jones, Melanie K.; Jones, Richard J.; Latreille, Paul L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

, financial performance, labour productivity and product quality. While there is clear evidence that training is positively …

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The Quality-Complementarity Hypothesis: Theory and Evidence from Colombia

Kugler, Maurice; Verhoogen, Eric - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …

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Experts' Awards and Economic Success: Evidence from an Italian Literary Prize

Ponzo, Michela; Scoppa, Vincenzo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Product quality is often unobservable ex-ante and consumers rely on experts' judgments, sometimes in the form of ratings or awards. Do awards affect consumers' choices or, conversely, are they conferred on the most popular products? To disentangle this issue, we use data about the most important...

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Consumers and the Brain Drain: Product Design and the Gains from Emigration

Kuhn, Peter J.; McAusland, Carol - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

We consider the welfare effects of skilled worker emigration in a context where skilled labor plays a role in product design. We show such emigration can benefit the residents left behind, even when consumers’ tastes exhibit a form of home bias. This is because emigration improves the design...

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Nur noch Roboter und Selbstausbeutung? Über die Herausforderungen und Chancen der neuen Welt der Arbeit

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

Unsere (Arbeits-)Welt scheint sich mit zunehmender Geschwindigkeit zu verändern. Der vorliegende Beitrag beschreibt zentrale Aspekte dieser Entwicklung und diskutiert ihre voraussichtlichen Auswirkungen auf Arbeit und Beschäftigung. Der Wandel ist weltweit spürbar und Roboter und Maschinen...

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Ostdeutschland 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall: Was war und was ist heute mit der Wirtschaft?

Brenke, Karl; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Der Artikel zeigt in den grundlegenden Zügen die Entwicklung in Ostdeutschland seit dem Beginn der Umstrukturierung auf und zieht eine Bilanz zum Stand des Anpassungsprozesses 20 Jahre nach dem Mauerfall. Wie sich an der Entwicklung der Wirtschaftsleistung zeigen lässt, ist der wirtschaftliche...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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. …

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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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 …

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