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Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
Su, Biwei; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
As China exhibited unprecedented rapid economic growth ever since its reform and openness, the development and sources …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009416957
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Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
Fu, Feng-Cheng; Vijverberg, Chu-Ping C.; Vijverberg, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper focuses on the question whether public infrastructure capital matters for labor productivity in China, both …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822341
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Consumption and Savings with Unemployment Risk: Implications for Optimal Employment Contracts
Pissarides, Christopher A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
This paper derives optimal employment contracts when workers are risk averse and there are employment and unemployment … risks. Without income insurance, consumption rises during employment and falls during unemployment. Optimal employment … during employment but dismissal delays insure partially against the unemployment risk because of moral hazard. During the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822597
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Life Satisfaction in Urban China: Components and Determinants
Song, Lina; Appleton, Simon - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
Survey data from urban China in 2002 show levels of life satisfaction to be low, but not exceptionally so, by … international comparison. Many of the determinants of life satisfaction in urban China appear comparable to those for people in … other countries. These include, inter alia, unemployment, income, marriage, sex, health and age. Communist Party membership …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703059
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Is the Household Demand for In-Home Services Sensitive to Tax Reductions? The French Case
Flipo, Anne; Fougère, Denis; Olier, Lucile - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
Our paper examines the impact of tax reductions on the demand for services in the home. For that purpose, we estimate a structural model of demand for such services by using household individual data collected by INSEE (Paris) in 1996. In this model, the net hourly wage paid to the domestic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762347
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'Klin'-ing Up: Effects of Polish Tax Reforms on Those In and on Those Out
Morawski, Leszek; Myck, Michal - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008
In 2007 and 2008 Polish governments introduced a series of reforms which led to a substantial reduction in the tax "wedge" (in Polish: "klin") on labour. We show that when considered together the package of introduced reforms brought much greater reductions in the tax burden compared to a widely...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703060
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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. Empirical analysis of firms' production functions...
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