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Unions, training, and firm performance : evidence from the British workplace employee relations survey
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002226186
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Unions, training, and firm performance
Addison, John T. (contributor);  … - 2008
The present paper uses a combination of workplace and linked employee-workplace data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey and the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey to examine the impact of unions on training incidence, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003652706
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Minimum wages and firm profitability
Draca, Mirko (contributor); Machin, Stephen (contributor);  … - 2006
other aspects of firm behaviour. In this paper we consider the impact of minimum wages on firm profitability by exploiting … firm profitability was significantly reduced (and wages significantly raised) by the minimum wage introduction. This … residential care homes, and a second on firms across all sectors). Interestingly, we find no evidence that the profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003253452
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Human capital spillovers and economic performance in the workplace in 2004 : some British evidence
Metcalfe, Renuka (contributor); Sloane, Peter J. (contributor) - 2007
This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS 2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003591840
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The causal effects of an industrial policy
Criscuolo, Chiara; Martin, Ralf; Overman, Henry G.; Van … - 2012
Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009530771
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Chinese unions and enterprises performance
Fang, Tony; Ge, Ying - 2013
unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010229934
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The past and future of manufacturing in Central and Eastern Europe : ready for industry 4.0?
Naudé, Wim; Surdej, Aleksander; Cameron, Martin - 2019
In this paper we determine the industry 4.0 (I4.0) readiness of eight Central and Eastern European countries (CEECs): Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Lithuania, Hungary, Poland, Romania, the Slovak Republic and Slovenia. We outline the nature of manufacturing in the region, describe three distinct...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011978455
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Three varieties of Africa's industrial future
Naudé, Wim - 2019
This paper shows that African economies have generally not de-industrialized, that manufacturing growth is very possible, and moreover that the contribution of manufacturing in Africa has been underestimated. As far as the future is concerned, African countries will in differing degrees...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012122074
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Mapping "information economy" businesses with big data : findings for the UK
Nathan, Max; Rosso, Anna; Bouet, Francois - 2014
Governments around the world want to develop their ICT and digital industries. Policymakers thus need a clear sense of the size and characteristics of digital businesses, but this is hard to do with conventional datasets and industry codes. This paper uses innovative "big data" resources to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010440545
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Entrepreneurship, education and the fourth industrial revolution in Africa
Naudé, Wim - 2017
The Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) is impacting on the industrialization options for Africa inter alia through three interrelated sets of technologies, namely automation, additive manufacturing and the Industrial Internet. In this paper I set out the case for why Africa should industrialize....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011694809