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measure of establishment labour productivity. In addition, the implications of training for the firm's bottom line are … labour productivity outcome and, in the case of the earlier survey, for the financial performance indicator as well. However …
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foreign direct investment on the labour productivity of domestic firms. A key policy change during this time period was the … foreign firm ownership and BEE on labour productivity. Regardless of the empirical specification we find no spill over effects … and no evidence that a greater degree of BEE compliance by foreign firms influences labour productivity. …
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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. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …
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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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This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …
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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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China has achieved impressive growth over the last three decades. However, there has been debate over the sources of the growth, and the role of the intensive versus extensive margin. Growth accounting exercises at the aggregate level (Rawski and Perkins, 2008; Bosworth and Collins, 2008) suggest an...
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measured by absence, turnover and labour productivity. Work-related psychological illness is found to be negatively associated …
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This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage …-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment process of productivity, empirical results reveal the existence of a … positive impact from conditional intra-firm wage dispersion to firm productivity (measured by the average value added per hour …
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