investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a … positive impact of higher salaries on firm productivity, but limited effects of non-monetary job quality indicators … quality indicators had a weak impact on productivity, however, reducing the incentive of employers to invest in job quality …

,the researcher set out to study the impact of absenteeism on organizational productivity with special reference to different …In a globally competitive market place companies strive to become as efficient as possible. Absenteeism is a worldwide … problem as it impacts on company efficiency and cost effectiveness. A large portion of absenteeism can be attributed to ill …

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

probability of robot adoption. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD … barriers preventing catch-up to occur. We find the level of averagelabor productivity, as a proxy for these barriers, to be …

This paper has three main objectives. First, it examines the level of multifactor productivity (MFP) in Canada relative … capital intensity and MFP in accounting for the labour productivity differences between the two countries. Third, it traces … considerably more engineering construction. Second, most of the differences in labour productivity between Canada and the United …

Because of gaps in existing surveys and methodological problems with the computation of productivity measures …, outsourcing and offshoring result in an overstatement of labor productivity and multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing … is large. Any overstatement of productivity in manufacturing, which has been a driver of productivity in the American …

. While most international accounts find that diversity reduces productivity, I argue that the U.S. experience is more nuanced …. Unqualified statements about the costs and merits of diversity are unwarranted, as racial heterogeneity increases productivity …