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Prices, productivity, and wage bargaining in open economies
Forslund, Anders; Gottfries, Nils; Westermark, Andreas - 2008 - rev.
According to the standard union bargaining model, unemployment benefits should have big effects on wages, but product market prices and productivity should play no role in the wage bargain. We formulate an alternative strategic bargaining model, where labour and product market conditions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010128001
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Estimating the Returns to Firm-Sponsored on-the-Job and Classroom Training
Dostie, Benoit - Centre Interuniversitaire sur le Risque, les Politiques … - 2010
that these lower returns are due to on-the-job training being more closely related to turnover and more geared toward …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008679886
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Four decades of Canadian earnings inequality and dynamics across workers and firms
Bowlus, Audra J.; Gouin-Bonenfant, Émilien; Liu, Huju; … - 2021
This paper studies the evolution of individual earnings inequality and dynamics in Canada from 1983 to 2016 using tax files and administrative records. Linking these individuals to their employers (and rich administrative records on firms) beginning in 2001, it also documents the relationship...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012619627
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Unions and establishment performance : evidence from the British workplace industrial/employee relations surveys
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2002
An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s - and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011406887
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Firm Turnover and Productivity Growth in Selected Canadian Services Industries, 2000 to 2007
Baldwin, John R. - 2011
examining firm turnover and productivity growth in various services industries in Canada and situating them relative to … turnover contributes positively to productivity growth in all industries, with the turnover due to entry and exit being the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013121015
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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 …, 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012962525
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The Structural Change and Labour Productivity of Firms : Do Changes in the Age and Wage Structure of Employees Matter?
Roosaar, Liis - 2017
This paper aims to clarify how changes in the age and wage composition of the labour force are related to the productivity of firms over the business cycle. Based on a matched employer-employee database of Estonian firms from 2006–2014, we decompose changes in the labour force and distinguish...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012941948
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Is hiring foreign worth it? : spillover from foreign firms' human capital and local firms' productivity
Pyun, Ju Hyun; Sun, Jong-in - 2022
This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital transfer from MNEs to local firms. Using the firm-level data for 2010-2015 from the Republic of Korea, we identify human capital spillovers using local firms' hired permanent foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013256491
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Productivity Gains From Labour Churning in Economic Crisis : Do Foreign Firms Gain More?
Roosaar, Liis - 2020
The purpose of this paper is to clarify whether domestic or foreign firms gained more from labour churning while adjusting to the Great Recession in Estonia. During times of high unemployment, all firms can raise their requirements for new employees, but in times of crisis foreign firms may have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012828786
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Unions and Establishment Performance : Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys
Addison, John T.; Belfield, Clive R. - 2021
An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has been the apparent shift in union impact on establishment performance in the decade of the 1990s compared with the 1980s and the recent scramble to explain the phenomenon. In...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013320592