"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

informality. The focus of this report is on exploring options to enhance worker welfare and firm productivity through access to …

creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …

creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. …

three analyzes the nature of employment and jobs, while section four examines wage determination and structure. Section five … policymakers in Armenia. Furthermore, it is important that in the longer term, wage growth does not exceed labor productivity … concern: relatively few persons of working age are employed, and many of those who are employed have low-productivity jobs …

"This paper investigates how enforcement of labor regulation affects the firm's use of informal employment and its … impact on firm performance. Using firm level data on informal employment and firm performance, and administrative data on … smaller amount of informal employment. Furthermore, by reducing the firm's access to unregulated labor, stricter enforcement …

training and make greater use of temporary employment. Small firms mainly rely on temporary employment, while medium and large … understand the effect of employment regulations on firm's performance"--World Bank web site …

constraints on achieving a more dynamic and flexible labor market. Changes to employment protection legislation (EPL) can be … the labor law will eventually lead to better employment prospects, shorter spells of unemployment, less informality, and … higher productivity and ultimately incomes. This involves moving from protecting jobs to protecting workers an idea known as …

employment are isolated. Next, the experiences of selected developing countries which have undertaken similar reforms are … positive employment effect is possible in the medium term. The analysis also shows that although the reforms are deep compared …

"The challenge for labor market policy in the transition economies has been to redress the sharp drops in employment … and productivity of job and worker reallocation. Then they investigate the effects of privatization, product and labor … market liberalization, and obstacles to growth in the new private sector on reallocation and its productivity in Hungary …