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Wages, Productivity, and Work Intensity in the Great Depression

Darby, Julia; Hart, Robert A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

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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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - 2004

The dual economy development models hold minimum wages (among other institutions) accountable for persistent dualism. We use 12 years of micro data on thousands workers in Costa Rica to test whether legal minimum wages have a differential impact on wages in the formal sector vs. informal sector,...

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Legal Minimum Wages and the Wages of Formal and Informal Sector Workers in Costa Rica

Gindling, T. H.; Terrell, Katherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

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Selective Schools

Brunello, Giorgio; Giannini, Massimo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 1999

endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple … distribution of abilities in the population and on the marginal contribution of each ability type to individual productivity. It is …

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Religious Affiliation and Participation as Determinants of Women’s Educational Attainment and Wages

Lehrer, Evelyn - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2005

Using a human capital model, this paper develops hypotheses about how religious affiliation and participation during childhood influence years of schooling completed and subsequent performance in the labor market as measured by wages. The hypotheses are tested using data from the 1995 National...

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Parental Background, Primary to Secondary School Transitions, and Wages

Dustmann, Christian - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2001

The degree to which economic status is transmitted from one generation to the next is an important indicator for the inequality of opportunities. One crucial element of intergenerational mobility is the way parents influence the education of their children. Unlike in the UK or in the US, in...

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Who Pays for General Training? New Evidence for British Men and Women

Booth, Alison L.; Bryan, Mark L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

We use important new training information from waves 8-10 of the British Household Panel Survey to document the various forms of work-related training received by men and women over the period 1998-2000, and to estimate their impact on wages. We initially present descriptive information about...

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Leadership Skills and Wages

Kuhn, Peter; Weinberger, Catherine - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

American business seems to be infatuated with its workers’ "leadership" skills. Is there such a thing, and is it rewarded in labor markets? Using the Project Talent, NLS72 and High School and Beyond datasets, we show that men who occupied leadership positions in high school earn more as...

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