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productivity. Low productivity firm's optimal choice of employment and wage will be unaffected by the introduction of the minimum … wage. High productivity firms comply so that wage and employment effects are non-negative for these firms. …
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We examine the patterns and correlates of the productivity gap between male-owned and female-owned firms for informal … productivity gaps observed at the lower end of the productivity distribution. Using decomposition methods, we find that about 73 … per cent of the productivity gap can be explained by structural effect, with the remainder being due to differences in …
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We estimate the wage penalty associated with working in the South African informal sector. To this end we use a rich data set on non-self employed males that allows one to accurately distinguish workers employed in the informal sector from those employed in the formal sector and link individuals...
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The paper attempts to find out the relationship between informal wage and innovative efforts of firms in the formal sector in countries such as India, where informal sector captures lion's share of total workforce. A firm employs both formal and informal workers to produce a good. In equilibrium...
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among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …
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between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …
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Worker participation in decision-making is often associated with high-wage and high-productivity firm strategies. Using … further increases after the introduction. Importantly, we corroborate previous studies by showing positive productivity and …
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