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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 …
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on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity …, wages, labor force participation, and well-being as well as its impacts on traffic congestion and greenhouse gas emissions … for some. There is also evidence that telework can increase productivity for some workers and those workers may …
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on the empirical evidence from time diary data, and discusses the implications of telework for workers' productivity …, wages, labor force participation, and well-being. Telework results in significant time savings for workers, as they reduce …
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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 …
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010330311
aggregate low-paying sector productivity. These findings highlight increased wages' incentive effects with implications for … management practice and public policy since "living" wages may be productivity enhancing. …Low pay poses issues for managers internationally. We examine productivity in low-paying sectors in Britain, since the …
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skills are valuable. We compare computer skills with writing and math skills and test whether wages vary with computer skills … has no substantial impact on wages. These estimates suggest that writing and math can be regarded as basic skills, but … that the higher wages of computer users are unrelated to computer skills. …
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Variable Pay Systems or Pay for performance suppose variable additional components to regular wages connected, for … example, with the evolution of the firm objectives or with the evolution of the individual features and productivity. These … the improvement in productivity, because of their connection with motivation workers. But our conclusions indicate that …
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skills are valuable. We compare computer skills with writing and math skills and test whether wages vary with computer skills … has no substantial impact on wages. These estimates suggest that writing and math can be regarded as basic skills, but … that the higher wages of computer users are unrelated to computer skills …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013319976
This paper introduces a newly constructed Theil index of between-sectoral manufacturing wage inequality and empirically tests whether the measure can serve as a basis for more general statements about the evolution of broader concepts of inequality, as argued by the authors of the University of...
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