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This paper offers an eclectic survey of the political economy of labor regulation in the United States at federal and state levels along the dimensions of occupational health and safety, unjust dismissal, right-to-work, workplace safety and workers’ compensation, living wages, and prevailing...
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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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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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In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
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We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …
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Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours...
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-2010, we show that a higher share of politically connected supervisory board members leads to lower productivity. …
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strong cross-firm association of FDI wage premia with similar differentials in productivity. …
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productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual basis for such measures, provide some historical examples, and then …
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We use an online real-effort experiment to investigate how bonus-based pay and worker productivity interact with … bonuses makes them cheat more but has no effect on their productivity. We also find that more productive workers behave more …
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