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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - 2013
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329177
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The Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John H. - 2014
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output … and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a … threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352218
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Working Hours and Productivity
Collewet, Marion; Sauermann, Jan - 2017
This paper studies the link between working hours and productivity using daily information on working hours and performance of a sample of call centre agents. We exploit variation in the number of hours worked by the same employee across days and weeks due to central scheduling, enabling us to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011653450
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Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model
Koeniger, Winfried; Licandro, Omar - 2004
change in competition. Higher substitutability increases welfare, output and productivity because resources shift towards the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010261777
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Recovery from Work and the Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John - 2016
Observations on munition workers are organized to examine the relationship between their output each week, their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011525034
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Output-Employment Relationship across Sectors: A Long- versus Short-Run Perspective
Sahin, Afsin; Tansel, Aysit; Berument, Hakan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
This paper investigates the nature of the output-employment relationship by using the Turkish quarterly data for the … period 1988-2008. Even if we fail to find a long-run relationship between aggregate output and total employment, there are … long-run relationships for the aggregate output with non-agricultural employment and sectoral employment levels for seven …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884236
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The Productivity of Working Hours
Pencavel, John - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
Observations on munition workers, most of them women, are organized to examine the relationship between their output … and their working hours. The relationship is nonlinear: below an hours threshold, output is proportional to hours; above a … threshold, output rises at a decreasing rate as hours increase. Implications of these results for the estimation of labor supply …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884279
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Substitutability and Competition in the Dixit-Stiglitz Model
Koeniger, Winfried; Licandro, Omar - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004
change in competition. Higher substitutability increases welfare, output and productivity because resources shift towards the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763546
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Catastrophic Job Destruction
Carneiro, Anabela; Portugal, Pedro; Varejão, José - 2013
, and the labor market segmentation channel. We uncover what we believe is convincing evidence that the severity of credit … net job creation and higher failure rates of firms. Finally, labor market segmentation seems to have favored a stronger …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329173
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Should the Maximum Duration of Fixed-Term Contracts Increase in Recessions? Evidence from a Law Reform
Martins, Pedro S. - 2016
Fixed-term contracts (FTCs) may be an important tool to promote hirings and employment, particularly in recessions or when permanent contracts are costly. Therefore, it may be useful to let some of the legal parameters of FTCs (as well as those of other labour market institutions) vary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011559634