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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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We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …
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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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competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …
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We use linked employer-employee microdata for New Zealand to examine the relationship between firm-level productivity …, wages and workforce composition. Jointly estimating production functions and firm- level wage bill equations, we compare … migrant workers with NZ-born workers, through the lens of a derived "productivity-wage gap" that captures the difference in …
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and financial incentives affect productivity in tasks that require coordination among workers. We simulate assembly line … effect of social connections. Our results are driven by men whose average productivity is significantly lower than that of …
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Since 2008, France experiences a sharp productivity slowdown. Both output per hour and total factor productivity are … particularly deceptive in the market economy. This recent trend contrasts with the acceleration of productivity during the previous … to have turned productivity more sensitive to the business cycle (and especially to the fall of stock markets). …
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Using a large longitudinal, nationally representative workplace-level dataset, we explore the productivity gains … substitutes in production, and that the productivity gains associated with organizational redesign are industry …-specific. -- Productivity ; workplace practices ; linked employer-employee data ; information technologies …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …
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This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …
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