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This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … conditions, by expanding or contracting the working week. -- Workweek ; wages ; employment ; productivity … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower …
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We show that U.S. manufacturing wages during the Great Depression were importantly determined by forces on firms …' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …
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We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity …, wages, and the inequality of wages within firms. While the average amount spent on employer-provided training is low in … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …
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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 … lower capital-labour ratio. We cannot tell whether productivity is driving wages or vice versa, but understanding why wages …
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lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …
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We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … wages. We use Belgian linked panel data and rely on the methodology from Hellerstein et al. (1999) to estimate ORU (over … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …
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