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Industry Profits, Wages and Competition under Incentive Labour Contracts with Unverifiable Effort
Meccheri, Nicola; Fanti, Luciano - Rimini Centre for Economic Analysis (RCEA) - 2010
This paper studies the interaction between incentive labour contracts, competition à la Cournot and industry profits, in a context where workers’ effort is not verifiable and the probability of the unemployed getting a job can depend on their employment histories according to the degree of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008738784
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Technical Efficiency Measurement within the Ivorian Manufacturing Sector: a Data Envelopment Analysis Approach
PLANE, Patrick; CHAPELLE, Karine - Centre d'Études et de Recherches sur le Développement … - 2002
The African industrial structure is characterised by a strong firm-size heterogeneity with a co-existence of small if not micro-enterprises of the informal sector and large formal organisations operating with a modern technology. In this paper, we investigate the technical efficiency of Ivorian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005055285
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Firm size and human capital as determinants of productivity and earnings
Teal, Francis; Söderbom, Måns - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2001
weak. The limited direct evidence of human capital on firm productivity suggests that human capital is indeed productive … role of size and human capital as determinants of either earnings or productivity has been the role of unobserved factors …. In this paper we investigate the roles of size and human capital in determining both earnings and productivity using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011152493
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Test of Efficiency- Wage Model for Iran's Economy
Araghi, Mansour Khalili; Souri, Ali - In: Iranian Economic Review 11 (2006) 3, pp. 127-135
which enhance the productivity of their workers. In this approach wage is an independent variable which will influence the … performance of the firms. On the other hand, one can say that when productivity and efficiency increase the firms will be induced … productivity for the period 1984-2004. The results show that the causality is from wages to efficiency and productivity. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010695822
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Capital destruction, jobless recoveries, and the discipline device role of unemployment
Riggi, Marianna - Banca d'Italia - 2012
I consider an economy growing along the balanced growth path that is hit by an adverse shock to its capital accumulation process. The model integrates efficiency wages due to imperfect monitoring of the quality of labour in a search and matching framework with methods of dynamic general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011099655
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Firm size and human capital as determinants of productivity and earnings
Söderbom, Måns; Teal, Francis - Centre for the Study of African Economies (CSAE), … - 2001
weak. The limited direct evidence of human capital on firm productivity suggests that human capital is indeed productive … role of size and human capital as determinants of either earnings or productivity has been the role of unobserved factors …. In this paper we investigate the roles of size and human capital in determining both earnings and productivity using a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009642653
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Test of Efficiency- Wage Model for Iran's Economy
Araghi, Mansour Khalili; Souri, Ali - In: Iranian Economic Review 10 (2006) 3, pp. 127-135
which enhance the productivity of their workers. In this approach wage is an independent variable which will influence the … performance of the firms. On the other hand, one can say that when productivity and efficiency increase the firms will be induced … productivity for the period 1984-2004. The results show that the causality is from wages to efficiency and productivity. Among the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010928041
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Efficiency Wages, Productivity and Simultaneity: A Meta-Regression Analysis
Peach, Eric Krassoi; Stanley, T. - In: Journal of Labor Research 30 (2009) 3, pp. 262-268
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004976711
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Individual Wage Setting, Efficiency Wages and Productivity in Sweden
Lundborg, Per - Stiftelsen facköreningsrörelsens Institut för … - 2005
the coefficient of variation of wages raise productivity in firms with many workers in that worker category. Last and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005771119
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Productivity under Large Pay Increases: Evidence from Professional Baseball
Papps, Kerry L. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010
The establishment of the free agency system in the 1970s resulted in large salary increases among professional baseball players. Historical data show that players have tended to perform better at early stages of their careers since free agency was introduced. Under the current salary bargaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008466464