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' incentives to increase labour productivity. We distinguish three modes of unionisation with increasing degree of centralisation … firms' productivity differences remain small. Otherwise, workers prefer an intermediate degree of centralisation, which …
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Professional sports are characterized by an abundance of information on worker productivity and severe consequences for …
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Understanding productivity performance is important to informing policy advice on how to improve productivity and … therefore New Zealand's overall economic performance. Given data limitations inherent in international productivity comparisons … evidence on the performance of the New Zealand economy. Previous international productivity comparisons involving New Zealand …
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Developed countries, including New Zealand, used to consider their populations wholly literate, in the sense that almost all adults could read and write. Contemporary definitions expand the concept of literacy to include wider cognitive skills, and extend it across the whole population: people...
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Each year around 8 per cent of Swedish manufacturing firms leave an industry. Of the exit routes available, the least likely is firm closure. Firms are more likely to merge, become acquired or switch to a new industry. We investigate the importance of various firm and industry characteristics...
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investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for …
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productivity. Indeed, between 1960 and 1980 productivity gains increased output per worker by nearly 1% per year. Since 1980 …, productivity losses have reduced output per worker at about the same rate. The time series analysis suggests that the im-plosion of … productivity was caused by the increase in criminality which diverted capital and labor to unproductive activities. In turn, the …
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-the-job training (OJT) investments on the productivity of their workers. As a result, larger employers pay a greater percentage of OJT … productivity growth on wage growth is smaller in larger plants; (2) the adverse effect of minimum wage on wage growth is smaller in …
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This paper analyzes the effect of information technologies (IT) in the financial sector using micro-data on a panel of over 600 Italian banks over the period 1989-2000. We estimate stochastic cost and profit functions allowing for individual banks� displacements from the efficient frontier...
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