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productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact …
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productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299237
We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …
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We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …
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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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performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …, suggest that the negative effects on wages might be explained by a decrease in workers' bargaining power following the …
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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 …
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condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy …
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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 …
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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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