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Part-time Work, Wages and Productivity: Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

Rycx, Francois; Garnero, Andrea; Kampelmann, Stephan - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

The authors use matched employer-employee panel data on Belgian private-sector firms to estimate the relationship between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that the groups of women and part-timers generate employer...

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Educational Mismatch and Firm Productivity: Do Skills, Technology and Uncertainty Matter?

Rycx, Francois; Mahy, Benoît; Vermeylen, Guillaume - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2015

high-skilled jobs, (ii) belonging to high-tech/knowledge-intensive industries, and (iii) evolving in a more uncertain …

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The heterogeneous effects of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and profits

Rycx, Francois; Garnero, Andrea - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2013

consequences of gender diversity are found to depend on the technological/knowledge environment of firms. While gender diversity … generates significant gains in high-tech/knowledge intensive sectors, the opposite result is obtained in more traditional …

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Does Education Raise Productivity and Wages Equally ?The Moderating Roles of Age, Gender and Industry

Rycx, Francois; Tojerow, Ilan D.; Saks, Yves - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2015

The labour market situation of low-educated people is particularly critical in most advanced economies, especially among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the...

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Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J; Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Ralf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries … are able to benefit from domestic knowledge. …

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Information Technology Use and Productivity at the Individual Level

Gandal, Neil; King III, Charles; Alstyne, Marshall W. Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

We employ a unique data set on white-collar workers that combines direct observations of individual use of information technology as well as objective information on individual performance. The main hypothesis we examine is whether heavier users of IT are more productive, and if heavier users of...

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Skills, human capital and the plant productivity gap: UK evidence from matched plant, worker and workforce data

Haskel, Jonathan; Hawkes, Denise; Pereira, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more productive firms hire more skilled workers: in 2000, plants at the top decile of the TFP distribution (controlling for their four-digit industry) hired workers with, on average, around...

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Skill Dispersion and Firm Productivity: An Analysis with Employer-Employee Matched Data

Iranzo, Susana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Tosetti, Elisa - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

We study the relation between workers' skill dispersion and firm productivity using a unique dataset of Italian manufacturing firms from the early eighties to the late nineties with individual records on all their workers. Our measure of skill is the individual worker's effect obtained as a...

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Productivity Spillovers Through Labor Mobility

Heggedal, Tom-Reiel; Moen, Espen R; Preugschat, Edgar - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

imitate by hiring a worker from a firm that has already innovated. We show that if innovation firms can commit to long … contracts, there is too little innovation and too much imitation in equilibrium. Our model is tractable and allows us to analyze … welfare effects of various policies in the limited commitment case. We find that subsidizing innovation and taxing imitation …

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Technological Change, Trade in Intermediates and the Joint Impact on Productivity

Bøler, Esther Ann; Moxnes, Andreas; Ulltveit-Moe, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012

This paper examines the interdependence between innovation and imports of intermediates, and their joint impact on …

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