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Productive Employment and Empowering Education : An Agenda for India's Youth
Jha, Raghbendra - 2014
Until very recently and despite human capital's pre-eminent and empirically established contribution to economic growth, Indian policymakers planning for economic development concentrated largely on issues of capital, labour and, to a lesser extent, technology. This paper argues that India's...
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Productivity and employment in APAC economies : a comparison with the EU using firm-level information
Di Mauro, Filippo; Hoang, Minh Duy; Morgan, Peter J. - 2021
skills, employment growth has generally been quite stagnant in all regions. Labor skills, for which we use the wage premium … bottom firms catching up with top firms in the Republic of Korea and the richest EU countries. Regarding employment and labor …. Our test of the productivity−employment link indicates that the size of employment tends to have a greater impact on …
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Opening the black box : task and skill mix and productivity dispersion
Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022
early life interventions, intergenerational mobility, parental investments, fertility, health care provisionAAn important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input...
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The Productivity Effects of Worker Replacement in Young Firms
Murmann, Martin - 2017
Existing management research has so far dealt with the consequences of labor turnover for established firms, but has not addressed its effect on young entrepreneurial businesses. In this paper I assess, both theoretically and empirically, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young...
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Reducing skills imbalances to foster productivity growth of Malaysia
Espinoza, Ricardo; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
between education institutions and employment, iii) providing training opportunities during working life, and iv) making …
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Impact of digitalisation on economic growth, productivity and employment
Arsić, Milojko - In: Ekonomske teme 58 (2020) 4, pp. 431-457
Since the industrial revolution, technological innovations have enabled rise in productivity, employment, standard of … may reduce a drop in employment and enhanc e the welfare of citizens, lies in additional reduction of the working hours. I … lead to a decrease in the labour force. In that case, full employment will be attained even with th e decline in the number …
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Wages, productivity, and the dynamic interaction of businesses and workers
Haltiwanger, John C.; Lane, Julia; Spletzer, James - 2000
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
share of female employees. This finding might indicate that lower productivity of women is (over)compensated by lower wage …
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Age and gender composition of the workforce, productivity and profits: Evidence from a new type of data for German enterprises
Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - 2012
share of female employees. This finding might indicate that lower productivity of women is (over)compensated by lower wage …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010286587
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The effect of pollution on worker productivity : evidence from call-center workers in China
Chang, Tom; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Gross, Tal; … - 2016
We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in China. Using precise measures of each worker's daily output linked to daily measures of pollution and meteorology, we find that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker...
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