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firms with varying levels of productivity. For example, in case of firms with relatively high levels of productivity …, enforcement has to be stricter than in the case with relatively low productivity firms. Taxing the more productive seems to be the …
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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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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 … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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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 … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …
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The objective of this paper is to analyse the existence or not of a wage curve in Colombia, paying special attention to the differences between formal and informal workers, an issue that has been systematically ignored in the wage curve literature. The obtained results using microdata from the...
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This paper investigates a puzzle in the literature on labor markets in developing countries: labor legislations not only have an impact on the formal labor market but also an impact on the informal sector. It has even been argued that the impact on the informal sector in the case of the minimum...
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Different empirical studies suggest that the structure of employment in the U.S. and Great Britain tends to polarise into "good" and "bad" jobs. We provide updated evidence that polarisation also occurred in Germany since the mid-1980s until 2008. Using representative panel data, we show that...
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This paper demonstrates that locus of control, i.e. whether individuals believe that reinforcement in life comes from their own actions instead of being determined by luck or destiny, is an important predictor of the decision to obtain higher education. Furthermore, the authors find that...
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Using longitudinal employer-employee data spanning over a 22-year period, we compare age-wage and age-productivity … profiles and find that productivity increases until the age range of 50-54, whereas wages peak around the age 40-44. At younger … ages, wages increase in line with productivity gains but as prime-age approaches, wage increases lag behind productivity …
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This study investigates how the first childbirth affects the wage processes of highly attached women. We estimate a flexible fixed effects wage regression model extended with post-birth fixed effects by the control function approach. Register data on West Germany are used and we exploit the...
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