This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … employment and generates a substantial increase in productivity (2.6%) by allowing firms to completely adapt to changing economic …

We analyze the behavior of plant-level real wages and productivity in Turkish manufacturing after the transition to … democracy in 1987 and test whether wages under democracy causes productivity. The Turkish experience provides almost an …, together with unprecedented total factor productivity and labor productivity growth. While these observations provide support …