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productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes … productivity. Average wages increase only by 0.5%. Sectoral spillovers between firms that train workers are found, but only in … firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms …
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The paper attempts to find out the relationship between informal wage and innovative efforts of firms in the formal sector in countries such as India, where informal sector captures lion's share of total workforce. A firm employs both formal and informal workers to produce a good. In equilibrium...
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The empirical relationships between labour wages, unemployment rate and the labour productivity index in New Zealand … short-run disequilibrium into the long-run equilibrium. The results show that the labour productivity index positively … labour, the more the wages earned. Related statistical tests on the residuals proved that the model and its findings are …
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-sector neoclassical framework with agriculture and non-agriculture, we derive the productivity-adjusted aggregate labor income share in … terms of the agricultural productivity gap, and the labor income share in non-agriculture and value-added factor shares. We … theory-based adjustment to our data, the average values for the aggregate and agricultural productivity-adjusted labor income …
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This paper provides evidence on the effects of agricultural productivity on wage rates, labor supply to market oriented …-marketed services at home (`home production'). The model predicts positive effects of a favorable agricultural productivity shock on … wages and income, but the effect on hired labor is ambiguous; it depends on the strength of reallocation of labor from home …
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productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer …
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productivity differences, and the size-dependent distortions emphasized in the misallocation literature. Our findings indicate that …
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.5 percent. A focus of this paper is to understand if the observed changes in wages and hired labor are in part due to … agricultural productivity growth as reflected in increasing rice yield. To estimate the effects of agricultural productivity, we … Upazilas and over time. We find that a positive rainfall shock has a significant positive effect on crop yields, wages, per …
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The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...
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correlates; and (c) the link between TVA and teacher wages. Teachers are highly effective in our setting: Moving a student from … between TVA and wages in the public sector (although there is in the private sector), and a policy change that shifted public … hiring from permanent to temporary contracts, reducing wages by 35 percent, had no adverse impact on TVA, either immediately …
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