productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 … productivity. A one percentage point increase in training is associated with an increase in value added per hour of about 0.6% and …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ?Solovian zone? where wages increase with … productivity, to a ?Marxian? zone where the paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed then productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …

wages. With the estimated coefficients we simulate the effect of privatization on non-privatizable and privatizable firms … the privatizable firms. The analysis does not support the hypothesis that wages played an important role in privatization …

relationship between workplace innovations and establishment productivity and wages. Using both cross-sectional and longitudinal … data, we find evidence that high-performance workplace practices are associated with both higher productivity and higher … wages. Specifically, we find a positive and significant relationship between the proportion of non-managers using computers …

We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 …-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers affect the productivity of firms and test for the … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …

headache on labor force participation, hours worked, and wages. We find that migraine headache is associated with a decrease in … wages. However, there is little evidence that migraine headache leads to reductions in labor force participation or hours … worked. We conclude that estimates of the cost of migraine headache to society should include its impact on wages. …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact …