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Manager's Incentives and Individual Wealth
Gaumont, D.; Merlateau, M.P. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1993
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap
Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. <p> The main finding is that the productivity differences between sexes in … or less independent of supposed productivity differences between men and women, while under piece-rate work. The wage gap …
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Production Hierarchies in Sweden
Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818513
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Lindh, Thomas; Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010600201
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training.
Ottersten, E.K.; Lindh, T.; Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486498
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Efficiency and Ownership Structure – The Case of Poland
Modén, Karl-Markus; Norbäck, Pehr-Johan; Persson, Lars - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2007
-2000. We find that foreign privatized firms have realized larger productivity gains than all types of domestic firms and that …-specific knowledge. Foreign greenfields have the highest average labour productivity, while foreign privatizations show the largest … productivity increase. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005645439
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap?
Meyerson, E.M.; Petersen, T.; Snartland, V. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670114
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Social Interactions and Labor Market Outcomes in Cities
Zenou, Yves - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2008
We develop a model where information about jobs is essentially obtained through friends and relatives, i.e. strong and weak ties. Workers commute to a business center to work and to interact with other people. We find that housing prices increase with the level of social interactions in the city...
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Explaining Cross-Country Differences in Labor Market Gaps between Immigrants and Natives in the OECD
Bergh, Andreas - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
In most OECD-countries, immigrants have lower employment and higher unemployment than natives. This paper compares nine potential explanations of these gaps. Results are obtained for 21–28 countries using bivariate correlations, OLS-regressions and Bayesian model averaging over all 512...
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Characteristics and Performance of New Firms and Spinoffs in Sweden
Andersson, Martin; Klepper, Steven - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2012
We analyze the rate of formation, the characteristics, and the performance of different types of new firms in Sweden over a decade. Comparisons to Denmark, Brazil, and the U.S. suggest that the environment for new firm formation in Sweden is not markedly different than elsewhere. In line with...
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