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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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Using Difference-in-Differences estimation and data from the European Community Household Panel, this paper suggests that the fixed exchange-rate policy adopted by Italy in the 1997-2000 period has reduced the real hourly wage growth of Italian fulltime workers with permanent contracts, on...
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …
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Germany. We examine their effect on today's productivity, wages, income, rents, education, and population density at the … with higher rents as well as higher productivity, wages, and education levels. We examine whether today's economic … hourly wages by around 10%. …
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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. …
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from 1918 to study the impact of changes in regional unionisation on regional wage and productivity growth and job creation … and destruction during the period 2003-2012. As local regional-industrial unionisation increases, wages grow. Lay … unionisation yields a positive impact on regional productivity, exceeding the wage growth, partly due to the closure of less …
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union density on firm productivity and wages in the population of Norwegian firms over the period 2001 to 2012. Increases in … union density lead to substantial increases in firm productivity and wages having accounted for the potential endogeneity of …
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We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …
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temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client …-by-doing increases productivity more than wages. … frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to …
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performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …, suggest that the negative effects on wages might be explained by a decrease in workers' bargaining power following the …
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