Search Results - subject:"Productivity differences"

Productivity Labour Adjustment Costs. How do new hires and leavers (incl. retirees) compare?

Vandenberghe, Vincent - 2025

Labour turnover is a crucial element of contemporary economic life. It can improve productivity if more productive workers replace less productive ones. However, in the short run, it generates sizeable labour adjustment costs (LACs), including productivity losses. This paper sheds new light on...

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Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru

Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023

We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...

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Does Turnover Inhibit Specialization? Evidence from a Skill Survey in Peru

Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023

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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru

Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023

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Does turnover inhibit specialization? : evidence from a skill survey in Peru

Atencio-De-Leon, Andrea; Lee, Munseob; Macaluso, Claudia - 2023

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Urbanization, productivity differences and spatial frictions

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2019

productivity differences and internal trade frictions. We show that even in the absence of the typical externalities studied in the … closer to optimal policies than decentralized allocations whenever productivity differences in non-traded sectors are either … very small or very large. For intermediate productivity differences, the urban bias leads to larger cities even relative to …

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Savings externalities and wealth inequality

Angelopoulos, Konstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; Malley, Jim - 2019

Incomplete markets models imply heterogeneous household savings behaviour which in turn generates pecuniary externalities via the interest rate. Conditional on differences in the processes determining household earnings for distinct groups in the population, these savings externalities may...

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Urbanization, productivity differences and spatial frictions

Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana - 2019

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Savings externalities and wealth inequality

Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2019

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Savings externalities and wealth inequality

Angelopulos, Kōnstantinos; Lazarakis, Spyridon; … - 2019

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