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, the productivity effects of worker replacement in young firms. Worker replacement isolates labor turnover due to employee … replacement as a separate category of turnover and has been shown to positively affect the productivity of established firms in … effects on young firms' productivity that remain even when controlling for moderating factors. These effects are even more …
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on their employees and working proprietors, to study the relationships among worker flows, entry, and firm productivity … construction firms; in our preferred specification, with firm fixed effects, a standard deviation increase in the productivity of … new employees' previous firms is associated with a 0.6 percent increase in productivity. New entrants are more productive …
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productivity ladders using employer-employee data matched with firms’ financial data for 20 years in Denmark. We conclude that … increases, the difference in growth rates between high and low productivity firms becomes larger. The opposite is true for the … difference between high and low wage firms. Measuring productivity using sales per worker, as done in previous studies, instead …
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We investigate whether workers reallocate up firm productivity and wage job ladders, and the cyclicality of this … process. We document that productivity is a better measure of the job ladder than the average wage, since high productivity … cycle differs between the firm wage and productivity ladders. In recessions, employment decreases more in low than in high …
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in the economy. In this paper, we analyze the effect of labor mobility and innovation on productivity growth in the … the extent and direction of worker mobility correlates with firm productivity. With event-study analysis based on …
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Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) or non-US OECD countries. We study the mobility, retention and productivity of 5 … largely by the decrease in public sector scientists. Paralleling this, their innovative productivity growth has also slowed …
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productivity growth is not straightforward, as some firms tend to win while others lose from mobility. In the present paper, we … related to regional productivity growth. This is found to be important even when only ties across plants that are not directly …
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share of the overall cost of displacement. However, and despite the positive correlation between premium and productivity in … the cross-section of firms, we find that workers are reemployed by high productivity, low labor share firms. The observed … reallocation is therefore productivity-enhancing, yet costly for workers. We show that destination firms are less likely to …
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Demographic changes and growing demand are making Long-Term Care (LTC) services for chronic patients and senior citizens a dynamic sector facing major challenges. Jobs in this sector tend to have limited attractiveness, to be associated with low retention rates and, consequently, potential...
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There is widespread concern about whether Chief Executive Officers (CEOs) are appropriately punished for poor performance. While CEOs are more likely to be forced out if their performance is poor relative to the industry average, overall industry performance also matters. This seems puzzling if...
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