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

productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …

lower marginal product of labour, higher marginal product of capital and lower overall productivity pointing towards …

foreign direct investment on the labour productivity of domestic firms. A key policy change during this time period was the … foreign firm ownership and BEE on labour productivity. Regardless of the empirical specification we find no spill over effects … and no evidence that a greater degree of BEE compliance by foreign firms influences labour productivity. …

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms’ export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …’s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms’ export activities …

measure of establishment labour productivity. In addition, the implications of training for the firm’s bottom line are … labour productivity outcome and, in the case of the earlier survey, for the financial performance indicator as well. However …

We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large … observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover on productivity. The productivity-maximizing rates of FTE-adjusted quits … and hires are each about 20% per year, improving productivity by 2.5% compared to the zero turnover level. We explain the …

this relationship operates through productivity, and isolate this mechanism from other channels such as bargaining ability … on labor market outcomes operates through productivity. In addition, we find evidence that gender and university major …