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Severe air pollution and labor productivity
Li, Teng; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2015
rich world today. We document large reductions in productivity, of the order of 15%, over the first 200 µg/m3 rise in PM2 … suggests that labor productivity across 190 Chinese cities could rise by on average 4% per year were the distributions of …
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Migrants and economic performance in the EU15 : their allocations across countries, industries and job types and their (productivity) growth impacts at the sectoral and regional le...
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert; Liebensteiner, Mario - 2010
Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … industries and regions and output and productivity growth. We do obtain robust results with respect to the positive impact of the … - on the relationship between productivity growth and the shares of migrants and of high-skilled migrants in overall …
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Performance pay and productivity : the moderating role of a high -wage policy
Jirjahn, Uwe - 2015
productivity only when it is coupled with a high-wage policy. This holds for individual-based performance pay, group …
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Application of Baumol's Cost Disease to public sector services : conceptual, theoretical and empirical falsities
Bailey, Stephen J.; Anttiroiko, Ari-Veikko; Valkama, Pekka - In: Public management review 18 (2016) 1, pp. 91-109
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How labor market institutions affect job creation and productivity growth : key labor market institutions, and the policies that shape them, affect the restructuring that leads to...
Henrekson, Magnus - 2014
Economic growth requires factor reallocation across firms and continuous replacement of technologies. Labor market institutions influence economic dynamism by their impact on the supply of a key factor, skilled workers to new and expanding firms, and the shedding of workers from declining and...
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Effect of international activity on firm performance : trade liberalization benefits better performing firms and contributes to economic growth
Wagner, Joachim - 2014
There is evidence that better performing firms tend to enter international markets. Internationally active firms are larger, more productive, and pay higher wages than other firms in the same industry. Positive performance effects of engaging in international activity are found especially in...
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The importance of measuring dispersion in firm-level outcomes : ignoring the large variation in firm-level outcomes can create misunderstandings about the consequences of many poli...
Syverson, Chad - 2014
Recent research has revealed enormous variation in performance and growth among firms, which both drives and is driven by large reallocations of inputs and outputs across firms (churning) within industries and markets. These differences in firm-level outcomes and the associated turnover of firms...
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Does education raise productivity and wages equally? : the moderating roles of age, gender and industry
Rycx, François; Saks, Yves; Tojerow, Ilan - 2015
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Do works councils raise or lower firm productivity? : works councils can have a positive impact on firm productivity, but only when specific conditions are in place
Hübler, Olaf - 2015
on a firm's productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …
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Advanced technology, innovation, wages and productivity in the Canadian manufacturing sector
Cozzarin, Brian P. - In: Applied economics letters 23 (2016) 4/6, pp. 243-249
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