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labour costs. Under simple assumptions, up to a certain threshold, technological innovation improves productivity, wages and … and a productivity slowdown, despite greater job strain. The model suggests the possibility of a third phase in which … productivity and wages recover. …
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We show that wage setting in the Colombian manufacturing industry is not fundamentally driven by labor productivity in … findings lead us to question the political strategy followed to attain cost competitiveness in a context of growing exposure to …
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In employment relationships, a wage is an installment payment on an implicit long-term agreement between a worker and a firm. The price of labor that impacts firm's hiring decisions, instead, reflects the hiring wage as well as the impact of economic conditions at the time of hiring on future...
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This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the margins along which firms in Norway respond to increased union density, using legislative changes in the tax deductibility of union dues as a quasi-exogenous shock to firm-level unionization rates. Despite higher personnel costs driven by a...
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productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 …), allows for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … productivity. Moreover, the firm size advantage found for manufacturing in previous studies nearly disappears for knowledge …
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among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …
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, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer …This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …
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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 …
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some evidence that high-productivity employers support minimum wages. We further show that minimum wage support is higher …
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and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …
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