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This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two issues neglected in the existing literature – the role of multinationals in service sectors and the importance of R&D activity conducted by foreign multinationals. We review...
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discontinuity design to estimate the impact of unionization on business survival, employment, output, productivity, and wages … highly profitable enterprises that are more likely to grow and pay higher wages. Using multiple establishment-level data sets … barely lost. The analysis finds small impacts on all outcomes that we examine; estimates for wages are close to zero. The …
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relative to non-exporters. Employment, shipments and capital intensity are all higher at exporters at any given moment. This … exporters. The benefits of exporting for the firm are less clear. Employment" growth and the probability of survival are both …
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anticipate considerably lower earnings in subsequent years, even under the assumption of continuous employment after leaving …
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women's real wages. The experience of the 1970's suggests, however, that real wage growth cannot account for the increase In … participation decisions is the level of uncertainty associated with expectations of future wages, and that high levels of …
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This paper develops a quantitative life-cycle model to study the increase in married women's labor force participation (LFP). We calibrate the model to match key life-cycle statistics for the 1935 cohort and use it to assess the changed environment faced by the 1955 cohort. We find that a higher...
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wages in each location with respect to productivity shocks in all locations. They are readily computed using commonly …
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relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. We match plant level practices with plant … establishments. When we examine the determinants of wages within these establishments, we find that re-engineering a workplace to … incorporate more high performance practices leads to higher wages. However, increasing the usage of profit sharing or stock …
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In this paper, we make the general point that econometric studies of the firm can be effectively and substantially enriched by using information collected from employees, even if only a few of them are surveyed per firm. Though variables measured on the basis of the answers of very few employees...
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Using confidential Census matched employer-employee earnings data we find that employees at more productive firms, and firms with more structured management practices, have substantially higher pay, both on average and across every percentile of the pay distribution. This pay-performance...
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