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United States Department of Labor - Bureau of Labor Statistics - Charting International Labor Comparisons (2012 Edition)

United States / Bureau of Labor Statistics - 2003

Showcasing data from all areas of the ILC program and other sources, Charting International Labor Comparisons is a gateway to explore how key labor market and other national economic measurements compare across countries. There are links to previous editions of the Chartbook of International...

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Firm Specific Wage Spread in Germany - Decomposition of regional differences in inter firm wage dispersion

Görzig, Bernd; Gornig, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2006

The purpose of this paper is to sort out firm-related differences from effects that result from different economic structures. A non-parametric decomposition is used to analyse firm level difference between the wage spread in the two major regions of unified Germany. If firm-specific effects...

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An Empirical Assessment of Assortative Matchingin the Labor Market

Mendes, Rute; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Lindeboom, Maarten - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer-employee data fromPortugal...

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Studying the past to plan for the future: A case study analysis of the unintended and indirect effects of regulation on productivity

Bakker, Gerban; Iliopoulou, Stavroula - Advanced Institute of Management Research <London> - 2007

Within the debate on the UK productivity gap regulation has been identified as a potential cause. This paper … investigates the effect of regulation on productivity by exclusively focusing on indirect, unintended and/or unforeseen effects …

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The Adoption and Diffusion of OrganizationalInnovation: Evidence for the U.S. Economy

Lynch, Lisa M. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using a unique longitudinal representative survey of both manufacturing and nonmanufacturingbusinesses in the United States during the 1990s, I examine the incidenceand intensity of organizational innovation and the factors associated with investments inorganizational innovation...

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Productivity and Trade Orientation inUK Manufacturing

Rizov, Marian; Walsh, Patrick Paul - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

forexogenous demand shocks by trade orientation, assuming that labour and capital are statevariables, and productivity follows a …

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performancein the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-workerpay and establishment performance using the matched employer-employee data in WERS2004, the panel dataset 1998-2004 and the new Financial Performance Questionnaire...<br<

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Shifts and Twists in the Relative Productivity ofSkilled Labor

Dupuy, Arnaud; Marey, Philip S. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

labor. This implies that the relative productivity of skilled workerschanges proportionally in all tasks. In contrast, we … argue that technical changes also affectthe curvature of the distribution of relative productivity... …

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Productivity and Size of the Export Market:Evidence for West and East German Plants, 2004

Wagner, Joachim - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

Using unique recently released nationally representative high-quality data at the plant level,this paper presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivityand size of the export market for Germany, a leading actor on the world market formanufactured goods...<br<

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Managing Information Technology in the Transnational Organization

Reimers, Kai - Technische Hochschule <Aachen> / Lehr- und … - 1997

autonomous IT deployment in national subsidiares. It proceeds by proposing Mulitfactor Productivity as a controlling instrument … Multifactor Productivity supports the twofold task of (1) capturing IT-induced decision interdependencies and (2) deriving IT … policies to cope with them. Possible ways of using Multifactor Productivity are discussed as well a potential pitfalls in …

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