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Agarwal, Nikhil - 2014

product of labor, with larger markdowns at more desirable programs. Therefore, a limited number of positions at high quality … market. I find that financial incentives increase the quality, but not the number of rural residents. Quantity regulations … increase the number of rural trainees, but the impact on resident quality depends on the design of the intervention …

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Ruling Out Productivity? Labor Contract Pages and Plant Performance

Ichniowski, Casey - 1984

This study documents a strong inverse relationship between number of pages of labor contracts in effect and the productivity observed in a sample of ten unionized plants. It is argued that this relationship reflects the productivity-inhibiting effects of increases in the number and complexity of...

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Training, Tenure, and Productivity

Lichtenberg, Frank R. - 1981

There is substantial evidence from the literature on individual wage determination that length of service to the firm is an important determinant of earnings and thus of labor productivity, holding constant employee at-tributes such as age, sex, and education. Earnings growth associated with...

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The Life-cycle Growth of Plants : The Role of Productivity, Demand and Wedges

Eslava, Marcela - 2020

, on firm dynamics and welfare, of efficiency, input prices, demand/quality, idiosyncratic markups, and residual wedges …. Our strategy nests previous approaches limited by data availability. In our application, demand/quality is found to … dominate the cross sectional variability of sales growth, while quality-adjusted input prices and residual wedges play …

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An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation

Lentz, Rasmus - 2005

Productivity dispersion across firms is large and persistent, and worker reallocation among firms is an important source of productivity growth. The purpose of the paper is to estimate the structure of an equilibrium model of growth through innovation that explains these facts. The model is a...

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Production Function and Wage Equation Estimation with Heterogeneous Labor : Evidence from a New Matched Employer-Employee Data Set

Hellerstein, Judith K. - 2004

the returns to productive inputs (capital, materials, labor quality) as well as the residual variance are virtually … unaffected by the choice of the construction of the labor quality input …

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The Cyclical Behavior of Equilibrium Unemployment and Vacancies : Evidence and Theory

Shimer, Robert - 2003

This paper argues that a broad class of search models cannot generate the observed business-cycle-frequency fluctuations in unemployment and job vacancies in response to shocks of a plausible magnitude. In the U.S., the vacancy-unemployment ratio is 20 times as volatile as average labor...

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Employer Learning and Statistical Discrimination

Altonji, Joseph G. - 1997

We provide a test for statistical discrimination or rational stereotyping in in environments in which agents learn over time. Our application is to the labor market. If profit maximizing firms have limited information about the general productivity of new workers, they may choose to use easily...

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Relative Labor Productivity and the Real Exchange Rate in the Long Run : Evidence for a Panel of OECD Countries

Canzoneri, Matthew B. - 1996

The Balassa-Samuelson model, which explains real exchange rate movements in terms of sectoral productivities, rests on two components. First, for a class of technologies including Cobb-Douglas, the model implies that the relative price of nontraded goods in each country should reflect the...

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Performance Pay and Productivity

Lazear, Edward P. - 1996

What happens when a firm switches from paying hourly wages to paying piece rates? The theory developed below predicts that average productivity rises, that the firm will attract a more able work force and that the variance in output across individuals at the firm will rise as well. The theory is...

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