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We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data … rates. The results indicate that productivity increases with age until age 40 after which it stays roughly constant. Wage … growth is faster than productivity growth for young workers but after age 40 both wages and productivity grow approximately …
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increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However … novel and rigorous evidence on the productivity effect of varying attributes of PRP and shows that the details of PRP indeed … establish that the omitted variable bias is serious, makes the cross-sectional estimates on the productivity effect of the …
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the Financial Statement data in the Finnish manufacturing sector, we examine the sources of carbon-productivity growth and … of carbon productivity growth whereas the contribution of entering and exiting firms was negative. In addition, the … allocation of emissions across firms appeared to be inefficient, with a negative impact on carbon productivity growth over the …
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This paper studies the cross-border health and productivity effects of alcohol taxes. We estimate the effect of a large …
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, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …
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Nearly half of high earning workers receive performance pay as part of their compensation, but we know strikingly little about the incentive effects of piece rate compensation on high-skilled workers. In this paper, we examine changes in medical providers' output in response to a piece rate...
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, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …
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productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …
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This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …
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Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …
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