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Why do employed persons in large firms earn more than employed persons in small firms, even after controlling for observable characteristics? Complementary to previous results, this paper proposes a mechanism that gives an answer to this question. In the model, individuals accumulate human...
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assimilation profiles of married adult immigrant women and men. Women migrating from countries where women have high relative labor … United States to the source country. Men's labor supply assimilation profiles are unaffected by source country female labor …
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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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productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms … productivity. Average wages increase only by 0.5%. Sectoral spillovers between firms that train workers are found, but only in …
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-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …
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How do economic policies and institutions affect job reallocation processes and their consequences for productivity … little relationship to relative productivity across firms and sectors. Since liberalization began, the pace, heterogeneity …, and productivity effects of job flows have increased substantially. The increases occurred more quickly in rapidly …
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Labour productivity is a measure of an economy's performance, and its development is a major determinant of material … prosperity. In view of this, the slowing trend growth of labour productivity in many countries is a challenge that should not be … development of overall labour productivity in the five largest European economies and analyses the contribution of important …
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In Canada, temporary workers account for 14 per cent of jobs in the non-farm business sector, are present in a range of industries, and account for 40 per cent of the total job reallocation. Yet most models of job reallocation abstract from temporary workers. This paper evaluates the importance...
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