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-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …
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larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that …This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a … productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a …
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, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 …-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers affect the productivity of firms and test for the … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …
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We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …
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-term labor contracts. Using both worker data from the Spanish Labor Force Survey and firm data from the Spanish Business …
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We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data … contain the population of Finnish blue collar workers in 61 different industries during 1990-2002. A unique feature of the … rates. The results indicate that productivity increases with age until age 40 after which it stays roughly constant. Wage …
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Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …
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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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In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …
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This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and … and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to estimate the effect of working hours on productivity. We find that as …
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