The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest …

This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer …-employee panel data for Belgium and rely on methodological approaches from both Hellerstein and Neumark (1995) and Bartolucci (2014 …

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …

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 …

the role of inputs from "Science" (firm-level publications' stock) on firms' labour productivity, showing that the effect …

Performance pay has been shown to have important implications for worker and firm productivity. Although workers …

Belgian linked employer-employee panel data, our findings show that firm agreements increase both wage costs and productivity … that firm agreements exert a stronger impact on wages than on productivity, so that profitability is hampered. However … wages beyond productivity when the rents to be shared between workers and firms are relatively big. Overall, this suggests …

differences in total factor productivity and, in turn, as possible sources of economic growth. This paper presents the results of … a causality study between business visits and multifactor productivity using a unique database that covers 30 sectors … sectors from business visits to productivity. Business visits emerge as a fundamental channel for the spread of knowledge. …

-by-importing. -- Imports ; exports ; productivity ; enterprise panel data ; Germany …This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence … on other core dimensions of firm performance. -- Offshoring ; Germany ; enterprise panel data …