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to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven …
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Improving productivity among microenterprises is important, especially in low-income countries where market … imperfections are pervasive, and resources are scarce. Relaxing credit constraints can increase the productivity of microenterprises … on the overall productivity of rice farmers and disentangled the total effect into technological change (frontier shift …
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We show why considering a number of education-dependent covariates in the wage equation decreases coefficient of education in the wage equation. We use a meta-analysis of results for Portugal to show, empirically, that this is the case. The coefficient decreases when we use covariates that can...
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An individual's human capital has a strong influence on earnings. Yet individual, worker-level estimations of earnings rarely include the characteristics of co-workers or detailed firm-level controls. In this paper, we use a unique matched worker-workplace dataset to estimate the effect on own...
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In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …
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In this note we use unique data from Bar-Ilan University, over a period of four years (2005-2008), to estimate simultaneous equations with regard to the relationship between publications and teaching loads. The study shows that students studying for a bachelor's degree are a liability while PhD...
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of the rejection of linearly separable production. -- Wage distributions ; productivity ; matched data ; multilateral …
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economies, affects corporate governance and productive efficiency of firms. Our model predicts that underdeveloped democratic …-2010, we show that a higher share of politically connected supervisory board members leads to lower productivity. …
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compare productivity before and during the work from home [WFH] period of the Covid-19 pandemic. Total hours worked increased … change. Therefore, productivity fell by about 20%. Time spent on coordination activities and meetings increased, but … constituted an important source of the decline in productivity. Employees with children living at home increased hours worked more …
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benign (or even positive) effects on productivity, which is one reason it has endured. Compared to other shocks that strike …
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