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Worker participation in decision-making is often associated with high-wage and high-productivity firm strategies. Using … further increases after the introduction. Importantly, we corroborate previous studies by showing positive productivity and …
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among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using rich Belgian linked employer …
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In this paper we explore the link between firm labour productivity and the introduction of the NMW over a more than ten … data to calculate firm-specific labour productivity measures and then aggregate them to the level of the low-paying sectors …, aggregate LPC sector labour productivity has been significantly positively affected by the NMW in the long run; the effects …
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The recent debate on trends in inequality in industrial countries has been marred by the lack of consensus about the relevant concept of inequality. Labour economists are concerned with inequality in earnings, macroeconomists with movements in the wage share, while policy-makers tend to focus on...
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This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of … sample, the evolution of the wage-productivity gap deserves the attention of policy makers. -- Income inequality ; Labour …
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This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of … sample, the evolution of the wage-productivity gap deserves the attention of policy makers. -- income inequality ; labour …
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In continental Europe, labour shares in national income have exhibited considerable variation since 1970. Empirical and theoretical research suggests that the evolution of labour markets and labour market imperfections can, in part, explain this phenomenon. The author analyzes the role of...
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This paper aims at identifying the labour share (wage-productivity gap) as a major factor in the evolution of … sample, the evolution of the wage-productivity gap deserves the attention of policy makers …
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