"Alarming studies today predict AI and robotics will do away with jobs?but this is only part of the story. Many jobs will change, some jobs will be eliminated entirely, many more jobs will evolve. The new jobs will require new skills and will pay higher wages. This book explains the big picture...

Cover page -- Halftitle page -- Title page -- Copyright page -- CONTENTS -- FOREWORD BY LOUISE FISHER -- Introduction -- 1 Productivity and the workplace -- Introduction -- The productivity challenge -- The refocus on the workplace -- Managerial perspectives -- Employee perceptions -- What works...

Productivity and the workplace -- The changing labour market - myths and reality -- The global workforce -- The future workplace -- Better managers in the future workplace -- The future health of the workforce -- The future of pay & reward - the triumph of faith over evidence? -- The future of...

18 studies using data from 20 highly developed, developing, and less developed countries document that average wages in exporting firms are higher than in non-exporting firms from the same industry and region. The existence of these so-called exporter wage premia is one of the stylized facts...

In this paper we consider the interaction between local workers and migrants in the production process of a firm. Both local workers and migrants can invest effort in assimilation activities in order to increase the assimilation of the migrants into the firm and so by increase their interaction...