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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...
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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...
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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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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
This paper analyses the relationship between training, job satisfaction and workplace performance using the British 2004 Workplace Employee Relations Survey (WERS). Several measures of performance are analysed including absence, quits, financial performance, labour productivity and product...
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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
This paper presents a tractable formalization and an empirical investigation of the quality-complementarity hypothesis, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this complementarity in a general-equilibrium trade model with...
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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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Industrialization Lessons from BRICS: A Comparative Analysis
Naudé, Wim; Szirmai, Adam; Lavopa, Alejandro - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
To date there has been few systematic and comparative empirical analyses of the nature of economic development in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS). We contribute to addressing this gap by exploring the patterns of structural change between 1980 and 2010, focusing on the...
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A Field Experiment in Motivating Employee Ideas
Gibbs, Michael; Neckermann, Susanne; Siemroth, Christoph - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
crowding out. Our findings suggest that rewards can improve innovation and creativity, and that there may be a tradeoff between …
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The Effect of (Mostly Unskilled) Immigration on the Innovation of Italian Regions
Bratti, Massimiliano; Conti, Chiara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
We use small Italian regions (i.e. provinces) to investigate the causal effect of foreign immigration on innovation … immigrants did not have any effect on innovation. However, decomposing the overall effect into the contributions of low- and high … applications by about 0.2%. By contrast, the impact of high-skilled immigrants on innovation is positive, in line with the previous …
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