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In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … small firms, despite their lower productivity levels, is not responsible for the decline. We also cannot confirm the …
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productivity differences, and the size-dependent distortions emphasized in the misallocation literature. Our findings indicate that …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …
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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 … that firm-level agreements benefit to both employers and employees – through higher productivity and wages – without being …
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We estimate direct and indirect effects of total factor productivity growth in manufacturing on US workers' earnings … experiences productivity gains in manufacturing, there are substantial local increases in employment and average earnings. For …. Strikingly, local productivity growth in manufacturing reduces local inequality, as it raises earnings of local less …
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temporary help service firm that records both workers' wages and their productivity as measured by the fees charged to client …-by-doing increases productivity more than wages … frictions entails wage compression, larger productivity gain than wage growth to skill acquisition, and motivates a firm to …
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …
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productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …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 …
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We investigate the relationship between migration and productivity in the UK, using an instrumental variable along the … impact (in both the statistical sense and more broadly) on productivity, as measured at a geographical level; this appears to …
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Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …
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