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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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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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of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …
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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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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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The Republic of South Africa faces the imperative of escaping economic stagnation. This paper seeks to synthesize results from a series of research efforts, including but not limited to the work conducted under the UNU-WIDER project on 'Regional growth and development in Southern Africa', and...
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This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm … proxy for unobserved worker productivity. Our results point to the presence of sizeable spillover effects from schooling and … training as their impact is bigger on firm-level productivity equations than on the corresponding worker-level equations. In …
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This study compares the determinants of productivity and wages at both firm and worker level. In the firm … proxy for unobserved worker productivity. Our results point to the presence of sizeable spillover effects from schooling and … training as their impact is bigger on firm-level productivity equations than on the corresponding worker-level equations. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096469