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performance of the labor market. High wages compared to productivity in the formal sector, the large and growing share of workers …
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This paper analyzes the potential economic impact of changes to the labor laws proposed in 2006. The economic logic behind these reforms is reviewed, and the conditions under which the reforms could be expected to have the maximum impact on employment are isolated. Next, the experiences of...
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This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet …
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first propose three measures of firms' productive performance: labor productivity, total factor productivity, and technical … countries in the sample. The exception is Morocco, whose various measures of firm-level productivity rank close to the ones of …
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productivity growth in Chile between 1992 and 2004. The authors estimate an extended production function where plant output growth … positive and significant effect of foreign direct investment in services on productivity growth of Chilean manufacturing plants … investment in services account for almost 5 percent of the observed increase in Chilean manufacturing productivity growth during …
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"The author studies the determinants of total factor productivity (TFP) for manufacturing firms in Bangladesh using …
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