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This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has been faster in the key Finnish sectors com-pared...
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This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has been faster in the key Finnish sectors com-pared...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009407753
The long-term employment contracts that helped to explain the once superior performance Japanese companies have come under pressure after the burst of the economic bubble in Japan after 1990. A large number of long-tenured, highly paid employees can become a financial burden for a company....
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establishment performance. The performance effects of training are indexed not just by individual and median establishment earnings … training on earnings is also detected in both individual and plant-based wage data, although consistent with much recent … unionism and training in the earnings equations, but by the same token negative effects are encountered when training duration …
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, training intensity/coverage, and training duration. It also examines the impact of unions and training on earnings and a …-wide training data. A positive impact of training on earnings is detected in both the individual and plant-wide wage data, albeit … only for the earlier survey. Consistent with other recent findings, the effects of union recognition on earnings are today …
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profit sharing increases earnings fluctuations, it also increases earnings growth in the longer term. As with any group …
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A basic assumption in the economic literature is the one of diminishing marginal returns to labour. However, theoretical studies on knowledge and labour specialization assume that an increase in the knowledge investment embodied in the human capital of workers raises the marginal product of...
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We find that firms located in areas with higher intergenerational mobility are more profitable. Building off the work of Chetty and Hendren (2018a and 2018b)—who provide measures of intergenerational mobility for all commuting zones (essentially, metropolitan areas) within the U.S.—we are...
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Using information collected by the National Audit Office, a comparison of several aspects of performance on recent Private Finance Initiative (PFI) contracts is conducted. The first aspect is a sector by sector comparison of refinancing profits, bearing in mind differential risk levels and in...
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