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Time of day, cognitive tasks and efficiency gains
Gaggero, Alessio; Tommasi, Denni - 2020
The link between time-of-day and productivity on cognitive tasks is crucial to understand workplace efficiency and welfare. We study the performance of University students taking at most one exam per day in the final two weeks of the semester. Exams are scheduled at different time-of-day in a...
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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …
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Artificial intelligence, jobs, inequality and productivity : does aggregate demand matter?
Gries, Thomas; Naudé, Wim - 2018
Rapid technological progress in artificial intelligence (AI) has been predicted to lead to mass unemployment, rising inequality, and higher productivity growth through automation. In this paper we critically re-assess these predictions by (i) surveying the recent literature and (ii)...
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Innovation, productivity, and training
Dostie, Benoît - 2014
stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 … training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as …
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In-firm training, innovation and productivity : the case of Caribbean small island developing states
Mohan, Preeya; Strobl, Eric; Watson, Patrick K. - 2017
In-firm training is a crucial innovative activity in modern knowledge-based economies which face increasing global …. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …
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The effect of pollution on worker productivity : evidence from call-center workers in China
Chang, Tom; Zivin, Joshua S. Graff; Gross, Tal; … - 2016
calls. To our knowledge, this is the first study to demonstrate that the negative impacts of pollution on productivity …
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Wage discrimination against immigrants : measurement with firm-level productivity data
Kampelmann, Stephan; Rycx, François - 2016
This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination against immigrants. We build on an identification strategy proposed by Bartolucci (2014) and address firm fixed effects and endogeneity issues through a diff GMM-IV estimator....
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The continued search for the solow residual : the role of national entrepreneurial ecosystem
Acs, Zoltán J.; Estrin, Saul; Mickiewicz, Tomasz; … - 2014
and knowledge, to understand the Solow Residual: National Entrepreneurial Ecosystem (NEE). The NEE construct is based on a …
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Productivity, wages and profits : does firms' position in the value chain matter?
Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, François; Vermeylen, Guillaume; … - 2019
This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years from 2002 to 2010, to a unique data set developed by...
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Spillovers and substitutability in production
Papps, Kerry L.; Bryson, Alex - 2019
Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of complementarities in a firm's production function? A simple model demonstrates that this is possible when workers perform their tasks sequentially and part of individuals' pay is determined...
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