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Guner, Nezih - 2016

We document that for a group of high-income countries (i) mean earnings of managers tend to grow faster than for non managers over the life cycle; (ii) the earnings growth of managers relative to non managers over the life cycle is positively correlated with output per worker. We interpret this...

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Firm Productivity Growth and Skill

Maré, David C. - 2015

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from Statistics New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and Integrated Data Infrastructure...

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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matching in the Labor Market

Mendes, Rute; van den Berg, Gerard J.; Lindeboom, Maarten - 2021

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data...

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Robots and Workers : Evidence from the Netherlands

Acemoglu, Daron; Koster, Hans; Ozgen, Ceren - 2023

We estimate the effects of robot adoption on firm-level and worker-level outcomes in the Netherlands using a large employer-employee panel dataset spanning 2009-2020. Our firm-level results confirm previous findings, with positive effects on value added and hours worked for robot-adopting firms...

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Real Unit Labour Costs in Eurozone Countries : Drivers and Clusters

Ordóñez Monfort, Javier - 2014

asymmetries in the convergence process of the RULCs and its components – real wages, capital intensity, and technology – are … achieving real convergence and, by extension, nominal convergence. We conclude by outlining technology as the key convergence … factor, and call for a renewed attention to real convergence indicators to strengthen the process of European integration …

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Labor Productivity During the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing

Hart, Robert A. - 2019

This paper provides estimates of labor productivity for one-third of UK manufacturing during the Great Depression. It covers engineering and allied industries, and metal working industries. A unique data set of actual hours of work is combined with comparable real output and employment...

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Is There a Trade-Off between Employment and Productivity?

Junankar, P. N. Raja - 2014

The aim of this paper is to analyse the possible trade-off between employment and productivity using panel data on world economies, developed and developing. We begin with the importance of productivity growth for developing countries, followed by a brief discussion of the concept of...

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Minimum Wages, Productivity, and Reallocation

Haelbig, Mirja; Mertens, Matthias; Müller, Steffen - 2023

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of output price increases. We find higher wages but no...

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The Impact of Sickness Absenteeism on Productivity : New Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Grinza, Elena - 2018

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer-employee data on Belgian private firms. We deal with endogeneity, which arises from unobserved firm heterogeneity and reverse causality, by applying a modified version of the Ackerberg...

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Labor Market Imperfections, Markups and Productivity in Multinationals and Exporters

Dobbelaere, Sabien - 2017

This paper examines the links between the internationalization mode of firms and market imperfections in product and labor markets. We develop a framework for modelling heterogeneity across firms in terms of (i) product market power (price-cost markups), (ii) labor market imperfections (workers'...

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