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labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …
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values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …
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recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in … detail how organizational capital has been measured and the measurement issues that face those trying to understand the …
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rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …
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combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed … components of the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index and the proposed index are different, the developments of …
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Implementing performance pay requires that workers' output be measured. When measurement costs differ among firms …, those with a measurement cost advantage choose to implement performance pay. They attract the best workers, and both the … switch to salary firms once their productivity is revealed. The magnitude of the resulting worker flows depends on the payoff …
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In this note we compare the laissez-faire steady-state solution in the Howitt and Aghion (1998) model to the social optimum. The analysis offers several new insights in comparison to the welfare analysis in Aghion and Howitt (1992). We find various new distortions between private and optimal...
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The paper analyzes the contemporary organizational restructuring of production and work within firms. We emphasize the shift from a "Tayloristic" organization of work (characterized by significant specialization by tasks) to a "holistic" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks...
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Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is procyclical/ complementary - expansion or contraction in one necessarily implies an expansion or contraction in the...
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knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … productivity, to a ?Marxian? zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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