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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D-to-innovation and innovation-to-productivity relationships, which have mostly been estimated on cross-sectional data. It considers four nonlinear dynamic simultaneous equations models that include individual effects and idiosyncratic errors correlated...
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Individual evaluation interviews have become a widespread practice. 52% of employees in French manufacturing firms over 50 employees declared an annual individual evaluation interview in 1997. However whereas the problem of constructing an optimal contract with subjective evaluation (which is...
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that exclusion did not affect U.S. agricultural wages or employment. Important mechanisms include adoption of less labor …
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dispersion should also have increased. The relevant data for the US is problematic, so we utilize a UK panel dataset covering the …
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Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job …
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the wages they receive. In particular, we show that this hypothesis may explain the high urban wages and unemployment … control urbaxv'rural migration, but could control wages and urban employment, it would, in general, set wages and employment … into accounce, both In the determination of shadow wages to be used in cost benefit analysis and In the analysisis of the …
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Firms often use non-linear incentive systems to motivate workers to achieve specified goals, such as paying bonuses to reach targets in sales, production, or cost reduction. Using administrative data from a major Chinese insurance firm that raised its sales targets and rewards for insurance...
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-based explanations of wage changes consistent with increasing variance in wages as well as increases in mean wages as suggested by skill …
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allowances lead firms to increase employment, but entry wages and workforce composition are insensitive to patent decisions. On …
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others. This manipulation holds constant wages and piece rates, as well as human and physical capital. On cash-rich days …
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