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Product market competition and employer provided training in Germany
Heywood, John S.; Jirjahn, Uwe; Pfister, Annika - 2017
Using German establishment data, this paper examines the relationship between product market competition and the extent … of employer provided training. We demonstrate that high product market competition is associated with increased training … except when the competition is so severe as to threaten liquidation to a firm. We take this as evidence of an inverted U …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011735905
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Wage discrimination based on the country of birth : do tenure and product market competition matter?
Fays, Valentine; Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; … - 2019
competition as moderator variables. To do so, we specify a wage-setting equation à la Bartolucci (2014) that includes a direct …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012126863
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Norwegian rhapsody? : the political economy benefits of regional integration
Campos, Nauro; Coricelli, Fabrizio; Moretti, Luigi - 2015
This paper investigates whether joint economic and political integration leads to larger economic benefits than just economic integration. The identification strategy rests on the fact that Norway, at the time of the 1995 Enlargement of the European Union (EU), had successfully completed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011281605
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Unionization and productivity : evidence from charter schools
Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - 2014
This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010230891
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Health information, treatment, and worker productivity : experimental evidence from malaria testing and treatment among Nigerian sugarcane cutters
Dillon, Andrew; Friedman, Jed; Serneels, Pieter - 2014
Agricultural and other physically demanding sectors are important sources of growth in developing countries but prevalent diseases such as malaria adversely impact the productivity, labor supply, and occupational choice of workers in these sectors by reducing physical capacity. This study...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010339660
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Impacts of unionization on quality and productivity : regression discontinuity evidence from nursing homes
Sojourner, Aaron J.; Frandsen, Brigham R.; Town, Robert J. - 2014
This paper studies the effects of nursing home unionization on numerous labor, establishment, and consumer outcomes using a regression discontinuity design. We find negative effects of unionization on staffing levels and no decline in care quality, suggesting positive labor productivity effects....
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Severe air pollution and labor productivity
Li, Teng; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2015
We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output over 15 months for a panel of 98 manufacturing workers at a plant located in an industrial city in Hebei province, north China. Long-term workers earn piece-rate wages, with no base pay or minimum pay, for homogeneous tasks performed over...
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Wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry
Agudelo, Sonia A.; Sala, Hector - 2015
We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in contrast to the standard theoretical prediction. On the contrary, internal institutional arrangements – payroll taxation, the minimum wage or the price wedge between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010502793
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The Spanish productivity puzzle in the Great Recession
Hospido, Laura; Moreno-Galbis, Eva - 2015
While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the adverse conditions in the labor market, but not only....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488819
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Labor productivity in rural African enterprises : empirical evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - 2014
Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010413138