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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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Innovation, Productivity, and Training
Dostie, Benoit - 2015
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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Training, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment in retail
Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019
Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training programs. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among store managers and sales associates from a large Latin American retailer....
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Gender gaps in entrepreneurship and their macroeconomic effects in Latin America : prepared for the Institutions for Development Sector
Cuberes, David; Teignier, Marc - 2017
This paper studies the aggregate effects of the existing differences between male and female-run firms in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC). Using data from the World Bank Enterprise Survey and the International Labor Organization (ILO), we show that only about one-fourth of the total firms...
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Fixed or open-ended? : labor contracts and productivity in the Colombian manufacturing sector
Castellani, Francesca; Lotti, Giulia; Obando, Nathalie - 2017
Using the Colombian Annual Manufacturing Survey (AMS) between 2000 and 2014, this paper investigates the effect of labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a...
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Stuck between Surplus and Shortage : Demand for Skills in the Russian Industry
Gimpelson, Vladimir - 2011
In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...
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Wage Dispersion and Firm Productivity in Different Working Environments
Mahy, Benoit - 2009
has, to our knowledge, never been explored on an empirical basis. Using detailed LEED for Belgium, we find a hump …
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Productivity, Wages and Profits : Does Firms' Position in the Value Chain Matter?
Mahy, Benoit - 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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012858492
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Linguistic Diversity and Workplace Productivity
Dale-Olsen, Harald - 2019
might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and …
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Performance Pay and Enterprise Productivity : The Details Matter
Kato, Takao - 2018
Much of the empirical literature on PRP (Performance Related Pay) focuses on a question of whether the firm can increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However, not all PRP programs are created equal and PRP programs...
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