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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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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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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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Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in advanced economies. We examine the extent of this convergence in the Czech Republic and Russia, economies that represent alternative models of implementing development policies,...
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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 …
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This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm … proxy for unobserved worker productivity. Our results point to the presence of sizeable spillover effects from schooling and … training as their impact is bigger on firm-level productivity equations than on the corresponding worker-level equations. In …
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number of production inputs from entering the West Bank. We show that after 2008 (i) output and wages decrease in those … manufacturing sectors that use those materials more intensively as production inputs, (ii) wages decrease in those localities where …
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change has influenced productivity growth in China, at least in the decade of the 1990s, but perhaps less so or not at all …
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of scale as well a high upfront expenses of acquiring high productivity animals might trap poorer households in low-productivity …
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performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …, suggest that the negative effects on wages might be explained by a decrease in workers' bargaining power following the …
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