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. This paper explores the direct economic consequences of immigration on host nations’ productivity performance at a sectoral … made a negative contribution to labour productivity growth in Spain and a negative but negligible contribution in the UK … sectors, but we note considerable variation in magnitudes. Labour productivity growth has a neutral contribution from migrant …
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destination most preferred by immigrants. However, it has also had a scant productivity performance. The main burden on … productivity growth lies with the construction sector and almost all private service sectors with the unique exception of the … of growth, shifting from labour creation to improvements in multifactor productivity. …
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. The firm data are informative on labor productivity. The matched data provide the skill composition in different markets …. Together this allows us to investigate how the mean difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the …
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-2002. We compute the contribution to output and labour productivity growth of employment, non-ICT and ICT capital, labour … qualification and Total Factor Productivity. Results are given for 29 different branches; individually and grouped into four … that although the ICT intensive group appears to be the most dynamic cluster, most of the impact on productivity is still …
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The paper presents a quantification of Spanish productivity performance over the last two decades –with a special … notable inefficiencies, as identified by negative Total Factor Productivity (TFP) contributions to productivity growth during … resurgence of labour productivity in Spain over the 2000-2004 period. …
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It is often argued that a mandatory minimum wage is binding only if the wage density displays a spike at it. In this paper we analyze a model with wage setting, search frictions, and heterogeneous production technologies, in which imposition of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after...
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estimating an appropriate distribution of labor productivity across firms. This paper formally compares such structural estimates …
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United States showed a behavior that was influenced by new technologies, whereas in Spain the contribution of productivity to …
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-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …
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-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005765468