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The Effects of Scientists and Engineers on Productivity and Earnings at the Establishment Where They Work

Barth, Erling - 2017

engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …

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Labor Market Institutions Around the World

Freeman, Richard B. - 2007

The paper documents the large cross-country differences in labor institutions that make them a candidate explanatory factor for the divergent economic performance of countries and reviews what economists have learned about the effects of these institutions on economic outcomes. It identifies...

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What Have Two Decades of British Economic Reform Delivered?

Card, David - 2002

France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …

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International differences in the business practices and productivity of firms

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.); Shaw, Kathryn (contributor) - 2009

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Creating a Bigger Pie? The Effects of Employee Ownership, Profit Sharing, and Stock Options on Workplace Performance

Blasi, Joseph R. - 2008

This paper uses data from NBER surveys of over 40,000 employees in hundreds of facilities in 14 firms and from employees on the 2002 and 2006 General Social Surveys to explore how shared compensation affects turnover, absenteeism, loyalty, worker effort, and other outcomes affecting workplace...

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Shared Modes of Compensation and Firm Performance : UK Evidence

Conyon, Martin J. - 2001

shared compensation practices have had higher productivity than other firms, but the effects vary among programs, suggesting …

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Non-linear Incentives and Worker Productivity and Earnings : Evidence from a Quasi-experiment

Freeman, Richard B. - 2019

Firms often use non-linear incentive systems to motivate workers to achieve specified goals, such as paying bonuses to reach targets in sales, production, or cost reduction. Using administrative data from a major Chinese insurance firm that raised its sales targets and rewards for insurance...

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Working under different rules

Freeman, Richard B. (ed.) - 1994

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Does Inequality in Skills Explain Inequality in Earnings Across Advanced Countries?

Devroye, Dan - 2001

The distribution of earnings and the distribution of skills vary widely among advanced countries, with the major English-speaking countries, the US, UK, and Canada, having much greater inequality in both earnings and skills than continental European Union countries. This raises the possibility...

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Single Peaked Vs. Diversified Capitalism : The Relation Between Economic Institutions and Outcomes

Freeman, Richard B. - 2000

Capitalist countries have historically had quite different labour market institutions and social policies. Do these differences produce sufficiently different economic outcomes to identify a single peak set of institutions? This paper shows that: 1. Labour market institutions have large effects...

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