This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract … between twenty unions and plantations, (b) mandated to respect a state government notification stipulating a new minimum wage … raised the baseline wage by 30% but lowered marginal incentives, by shifting the existing piece rates to higher minimum …

, employment, and productivity, many direct and indirect effects are at play. To ensure a transparent and systematic flow of the …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … past. Another is lower trade union membership. Alternatively, it might be driven by a fall in productivity as a result of a …

skills, employment growth has generally been quite stagnant in all regions. Labor skills, for which we use the wage premium …. Our test of the productivity−employment link indicates that the size of employment tends to have a greater impact on …This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …