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of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …
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differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers … appropriate their productivity gains of education through wages. On the other hand, workers with more experience are more …
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Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity -- and when productivity is … critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages … and productivity, as well as the presence of positive externalities from on-the-job training, while discussing the …
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correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …
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This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … wages and income, but the effect on hired labor is ambiguous; it depends on the strength of reallocation of labor from home …
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the wages of workers employed at heterogeneous firms. The analysis of the data at the firm-level confirms earlier findings … of a differential positive effect of trade liberalization on the average wages at exporting firms relative to non …-exporting firms. However, this analysis of average firm-level wages is incomplete along several dimensions. First, it cannot fully …
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This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It differentiates between two different sources of spillovers: clustering of general economic activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also...
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expected to reduce learning and will lead to future losses in earnings and labor productivity. Schooling attainment leads to …
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This paper assesses the impact of Internet job search on employment in the Arab Republic of Egypt, the most populous country in the Middle East and North Africa region. Using panel data from the 2012 and 2018 rounds of the Egypt Labor Market Panel Survey, the paper examines the impact of...
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correlations between wages and the so-called "big five" personality traits, and augments the analysis with the latent personality … significant correlations between personality traits and wages, within and across firms. The results appear to indicate that non … positive correlation between "emotional stability" and wages and a negative correlation between "grit" and wages, especially …
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