In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …

The paper investigates structural change among the four-digit (SIC) industries of the U.S. manufacturing sector during … productivity change is tested by an application of quantile regression and is found to be significantly positive throughout. …

This paper compares the effects of intangible capital on wage formation among white-collar manufacturing workers using …

separately for manufacturing and services using Finnish private-sector data. We apply a decomposition method based on …

of the country. The manufacturing industry is studied in particular since a large part of the economic activity is … located in the North, relative to the rest of the country’s regions. The change in the manufacturing industry has been … distribution are the ones who seem to be most affected in terms of education investment by the decline of manufacturing activity in …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …,586 enterprises in the Netherlands over the period 2000-2008, considering 5 manufacturing and services industries that differ in the …

firms might differ according to their level of productivity or their size. Using quantile regressions and a data set for … in terms of total factor productivity, labour productivity and employment) varies across firms in different quantiles of … seem to show that firms throughout the productivity distribution do not benefit from FDI in Less Developed Countries …

multinationals depend on the level of productivity and the exporting status of the domestic firm. Larger and more productive firms …