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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377443
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Techies and Firm Level Productivity
Harrigan, James; Reshef, Ariell; Toubal, Farid - 2023
We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014348039
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The Cost of Well-being
Pettini, Anna; Patrizii, Vincenzo; Resce, Giuliano - 2015
Since measures of well-being are meant to be an exercise in documentation, but also a tool for policies and priorities, we suggest an operative way to use them. We evaluate both technical and social efficiency of countries in producing the Better Life Index (BLI) objectives. To assess the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011307128
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The Fiscal Effect of Immigration: Reducing Bias in Influential Estimates
Clemens, Michael - 2021
Immigration policy can have important net fiscal effects that vary by immigrants’ skill level. But mainstream methods to estimate these effects are problematic. Methods based on cash-flow accounting offer precision at the cost of bias; methods based on general equilibrium modeling address bias...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012799764
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Investing in biogas: timing, technological choice and the value of flexibility from inputs mix
Corato, Luca Di; Moretto, Michele - 2009
In a continuous-time framework we study the technology and investment choice problem of a continuous co-digestion biogas plant dealing with randomly fluctuating relative convenience of input factor costs. Input factors enter into the productive process together mixed according to a given initial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266004
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High-Pressure, High-Paying Jobs?
Nagler, Markus; Rincke, Johannes; Winkler, Erwin - 2022
Work-related stress has reportedly increased over time. Using worker-level survey data, we build a measure of work pressure strongly associated with adverse health outcomes. In line with theories of compensating differentials, work pressure comes with a sizable earnings premium, even within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013470360
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The Changing Structure of Immigration to the OECD: What Welfare Effects on Member Countries?
Burzynski, Michal; Docquier, Frédéric; Rapoport, Hillel - 2018
We investigate the welfare implications of two pre-crisis immigration waves (1991–2000 and 2001–2010) and of the post … across countries and across skill groups. In relative terms, the post-crisis wave induces smaller welfare gains compared to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011872049
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Reciprocity and the Interaction between the Unemployed and the Caseworker
Van den Berg, Gerard J.; Kesternich, Iris; Müller, Gerrit - 2019
constraints on individual job search effort in the context of the German welfare system. For this we merge survey data of long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012179746
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Ethnic Divisions and Production in Firms
Hjort, Jonas - 2013
evidence on the direct effect of ethnic divisions on productivity. In team production at a plant in Kenya, an upstream worker …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328862
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Lifting the veil: The face of TFP in an Indian rail mill
Das, Sanghamitra; Krishna, Kala M.; Lychagin, Sergey; … - 2011
We use a proprietary data set on the floor-level operations at the Bhilai Rail and Structural Mill (RSM) in India to understand how output rose sharply in response to competitive pressures. Output increases came predominantly from reductions in production delays of various kinds. We model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277383