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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap

Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998

It is extraordinarily difficult to determine the extent to which the gender wage gap reflects discriminatory behaviors by employers or differences in productive capacities between men and women. We note that where piece-rate work is performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity...

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The French Food-Processing Model : High Relative Wages and High Work Intensity

Lamanthe, Annie; Gautie, Jerome; Caroli, Eve - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

The authors examine wages and working conditions in meat processing and confectionery in France. Working there may not require much skill, or command good wages and working conditions, but this article reveals a more complex, positive situation than expected, thanks to the "French model's"...

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Croissance de la productivité : le rôle des institutions et de la politique économique

Givord, Pauline; Cette, Gilbert; Epaulard, Anne - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2009

Les gains de productivité constituent sur le moyen-long terme l’un des principaux vecteurs de développement d’une entreprise et, au niveau macro-économique, la principale source de l’élévation du niveau de vie moyen d’une population.

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OECD Productivity Growth in the 2000s : A Descriptive Analysis of the Impact of Sectoral Effects and Innovation

Dupont, Julien; Guellec, Dominique; Oliveira Martins, … - Université Paris-Dauphine (Paris IX) - 2011

construction and market services. Looking for possible explanations of the decline, a marked slowdown in innovation emerged as the … most likely cause. It concludes that, if no new wave of innovation materialises, comparable in size to the one of the late …. Only a recovery in innovation itself could trigger a sustainable recovery in productivity in the major OECD countries. …

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The Real Effects of Private Equity Buyouts

Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2010

Private equity buyouts have become a common element in the industrial development process. I survey the literature on the real economic effect of buyouts: employment, wages, productivity, and long-run investments. Employment tend to marginally fall after a buyout in most countries studied, with...

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