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in labor productivity and in MFP over the last seven years, the last 20 years, and the last 116 years. Its conclusion is … in total economy labor productivity will be 1.7 percent, and growth in the more familiar concept of NFPB sector labor … productivity will be 2.05 percent. The implied forecast 1.50 percent growth rate of per-capita real GDP falls far short of the …
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worker productivity in the facility. Using a natural field experiment, we report several insights. For example, conditional … incentives framed as both "losses" and "gains" increase productivity for both individuals and teams. In addition, teams more …%: that is, total team productivity is enhanced by 1% purely due to the framing manipulation. Importantly, we find that …
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Throughout the postwar era until 1995 labor productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe's productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative tradeoff between productivity and employment …
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marginal productivity of different categories of workers with the wages they earn. A methodological contribution is to estimate … developed countries follows a distinct pattern. On the one hand, wage premiums exceed productivity premiums for general human … capital characteristics (tenure and training), even though these have a clear productivity effect …
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information-worker productivity, we study task level practices at a midsize executive recruiting firm. We analyze both project … that (a) IT use is positively correlated with non-linear drivers of productivity; (b) the structure and size of workers … productivity such that, beyond an optimum, more multitasking is associated with declining project completion rates and revenue …
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Theory predicts that mandated employment protections may reduce productivity by distorting production choices. Firms … of which should affect productivity. These theoretical predictions have rarely been tested. We use the adoption of … and productivity. Drawing on establishment-level data from the Annual Survey of Manufacturers and the Longitudinal …
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This paper is motivated by a set of cross-country observations on labor productivity growth among industrial countries … labor productivity has increased dramatically. The main contribution of the paper is to show how these observations are … demographic factors temporarily become an major determinant of labor productivity growth. Our estimation of the model implies that …
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The present study is a contribution to the theory of the measurement of productivity growth. First, it examines the … welfare-theoretic basis for measuring productivity growth and shows that the ideal welfare-theoretic measure is a chain index … of productivity growth rates of different sectors which uses current output weights. Second, it lays out a technique for …
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This paper argues that unemployment insurance increases labor productivity by encouraging workers to seek higher … productivity jobs, and by encouraging firms to create those jobs. We use a quantitative general equilibrium model to investigate …
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these tasks are designed to be used by skilled workers, productivity in the LDCs will be low. Even when all countries have … factor productivity and output per worker. Our theory also suggests that productivity differences should be highest in medium … effect on the direction of technical change and on productivity differences …
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