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Money on the table? : firms' and workers' gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nikolay - 2013
We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms, by the workers who bring spillovers, and by the other workers. Using linked employer-employee data from Danish manufacturing for the period 1995-2007, we find that at least...
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Value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level
Merkl, Christian; Stüber, Heiko - 2018
In this paper, we analyze the connection between value added, wages, and labor market flows at the establishment level …
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Why do worker-firm matches dissolve?
Gielen, Anne C. (contributor); Ours, Jan C. van (contributor) - 2006
wages to prevent them to quit. Similarly, workers with a high layoff probability give up some of their wage to prevent them … may be related to downward wage rigidity. While it is easy to renegotiate higher wages to prevent quits, it is much more … difficult to renegotiate lower wages to prevent layoffs even if that would overall be beneficial to the workers involved …
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Incentives, selection and productivity in labor markets : evidence from rural Malawi
Guiteras, Raymond P.; Jack, B. Kelsey - 2014
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Understanding the reallocation of displaced workers to firms
Brandily, Paul; Hémet, Camille; Malgouyres, Clément - 2022
We study job displacement in France. In the medium run, losses in firm-specific wage premium account for a substantial share of the overall cost of displacement. However, and despite the positive correlation between premium and productivity in the cross-section of firms, we find that workers are...
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The selection and causal effects of work incentives on labor productivity : evidence from a two-stage randomized controlled trial in Malawi
Kim, Hyuncheol Bryant; Kim, Seonghoon; Kim, Thomas T. - 2017
Incentives are essential to promote labor productivity. We implemented a two-stage field experiment to measure effects of career and wage incentives on productivity through self-selection and causal effect channels. First, workers were hired with either career or wage incentives. After...
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Automation and new tasks : how technology displaces and reinstates labor
Acemoglu, Daron; Restrepo, Pascual - 2019
We present a framework for understanding the effects of automation and other types of technological changes on labor demand, and use it to interpret changes in US employment over the recent past. At the center of our framework is the allocation of tasks to capital and labor - the task content of...
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Structural labor supply models and wage exogeneity
Löffler, Max; Peichl, Andreas; Siegloch, Sebastian - 2014
elasticities derived from microeconometric models can also be explained by modeling assumptions with respect to wages. Specifically … very sensitive to the treatment of wages. In particular, the often-made but highly restrictive independence assumption … between preferences and wages is key. To overcome this restriction, we propose a flexible estimation strategy that nests …
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The wage returns to on-the-job training : evidence from matched employer-employee data
Almeida, Rita; Faria, Marta Lince de - 2014
Skills shortages and skill mismatch are a pressing concern for policymakers in several developing countries, and in East Asia specifically. Providing on-the-job training can be an effective policy tool to shape the skills of the existent workforce to the specific needs of the firms. This paper...
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Labor market transparency
Wadensjö, Eskil - 2013
The labor market differs from other markets in many respects. Most important is that those who supply labor also have to deliver it in person. It means firstly that the work environment and organization of work are important for those who deliver labor, since they are in the work place....
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