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This paper takes a retrospective look at the U.S. government's effort to rescue and restructure General Motors and Chrysler in the midst of the 2009 economic and financial crisis. The paper describes how two of the largest industrial companies in the world came to seek a bailout from the U.S....
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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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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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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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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …
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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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This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …
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Labour productivity stagnated in the UK in the years between the financial crisis and the emergence of Covid-19. At the … same time labour supply and employment grew strongly, driven primarily by net inward migration. While labour productivity … that around one-fifth, or 4pp, of the 25 log point fall in productivity from its previous trend can be explained by …
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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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's foreign intelligence service to sector-specific gaps in total factor productivity (TFP) between West and East Germany. Based …
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