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A longstanding puzzle of empirical economics is that average labor productivity declines during recessions and … explaining the observed procyclicality. For each competing hypothesis we derive the implications for cyclical productivity … heterogeneity in long-run structural changes across individual plants to identify the short-run sources of procyclical productivity …
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productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity …
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is an important determinant of earnings and thus of labor productivity, holding constant employee at-tributes such as age … for estimation of the marginal productivity of workers classified by length of service to the firm, i.e., of the tenure-productivity … changes in labor turnover behavior) on manufacturing productivity performance …
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important in explaining welfare losses from revenue productivity dispersion …
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productivity of women is less than that of men, but not by enough to fully explain the gap in wages, a result that is consistent … that both the wage and productivity profiles are rising but concave to the origin (consistent with profiles quadratic in … age), but the estimated relative wage profile is steeper than the relative productivity profile, consistent with models of …
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This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …
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We test for sorting of workers between and within industrial sectors in a directed search model with coordination frictions. We fit the model to sector-specific vacancy and output data along with publicly-available statistics that characterize the distribution of worker and employer wage...
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A growing body of literature examines the cross price elasticities between different health care services. For example, increasing the patient out of pocket price for some health care services increases the utilization of other health care services. Yet, the literature has generally ignored the...
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We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …
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We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …
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