relationship between wages, productivity and human capital in 5 European Union countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the … United Kingdom, in comparison with the USA. Firstly we analyze the role of productivity in the explanation of real wages …, secondly we present a comparative study of the evolution of wages and productivity during the period 1985-2005, and thirdly we …

productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …

Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity-and when productivity is … critical to their survival. This paper begins by confirming a significant and positive return from on-the-job training on wages … and productivity, as well as the presence of positive externalities from on-the-job training, while discussing the …

; greater productive contributions and thus wages for skilled labor are associated with more machinery intensity and computer … that synergies among skilled (technical) labor, computers, and machinery capital have productivity- and skilled wage …-enhancing effects that could contribute to productivity convergence of developing toward developed countries, even with their differing …

illness should have higher labour productivity. • Hourly wages can be used as an indicator of labour productivity. While wages … are likely to be a reasonable indicator of the effects of education on labour productivity, statistical issues and the way … that labour markets function in practice mean that using wages as an indicator could lead to results that under- or …

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and … productivity and the proxies specified for schooling and adult health are first discussed, and then the functional relationships … between human capital and wages are described. Three types of estimation problem are discussed: (1) bias due to omitted …

A consensus has been forged in the last decade that recent periods of sustained growth in total factor productivity and …

concerning continuing training that are debated in academia as well as in public are discussed. Wage and productivity effects of … concerning continuing training that are debated in academia as well as in public are discussed. Wage and productivity effects of … training that vary in the degree of firm specificity are considered. Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to …