the negligible consequences of domestic privatization result from effects on scale, productivity, and costs that are large …-improvement effect, and the positive wage outcome from productivity improvement dominating the cost-reduction effect. -- Privatization … transition economies to estimate the impacts of privatization on employment and wages. The results in all four countries …

This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …

Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity … that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …