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Askitas, Nikos; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011

The internet has become an important data source for the Social Sciences because these data are available without lags, can be regarded as involuntary surveys and hence have no observer effect, can be geo-labeled, are available for countries across the globe and can be viewed in continuous time...

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Does Human Capital Protect Workers against Exogenous Shocks? South Africa in the 2008-2009 Crisis

Leung, Ron; Stampini, Marco; Vencatachellum, Désiré - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

The financial and economic crisis of 2008 and 2009 has taken its toll on the South African economy. The economy contracted for the first time since 1998, and entered recession during the fourth quarter of 2008. The GDP contraction was soon transmitted to the labor market. Between the second...

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Migration as an Adjustment Mechanism in the Crisis? A Comparison of Europe and the United States

Jauer, Julia; Liebig, Thomas; Martin, John P.; Puhani, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

The question of whether migration can be an equilibrating force in the labour market is an important criterion for an optimal currency area. It is of particular interest currently in the context of high and rising levels of labour market disparities, in particular within the Eurozone where there...

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Unemployment Invariance

Karanassou, Marika; Snower, Dennis J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

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The Role of Sectoral Growth Patterns in Labor Market Development

Arias-Vazquez, Francisco Javier; Lee, Jean Nahrae; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

This paper investigates the relationship between sectoral growth patterns and employment outcomes. A broad cross-country analysis reveals that in middle-income countries, employment responds more to growth in less productive and more labor-intensive sectors. Employment in middle-income countries...

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Analysis of Pay Inequality and its Impacts on Growth and Performance in the Korean Manufacturing Industry

Kim, Yunhee; Lee, Jeong-Dong; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2008

This paper examines the relationship between pay inequality, economic growth, and performance in Korea. Pay inequality is estimated by using Theil's index to identify the factors determining the level of pay inequality, and establish its relationship with economic growth and performance. For the...

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Do Personality Traits Affect Productivity? Evidence from the Lab

Cubel, Maria; Nuevo-Chiquero, Ana; Sanchez-Pages, Santiago - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

this relationship operates through productivity, and isolate this mechanism from other channels such as bargaining ability … on labor market outcomes operates through productivity. In addition, we find evidence that gender and university major …

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Employee Trust and Workplace Performance

Brown, Sarah; Gray, Daniel; McHardy, Jolian; Taylor, Karl - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

measures of workplace performance (financial performance, labour productivity and product or service quality) and employee …

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Labour Turnover and Labour Productivity in a Retail Organization

Siebert, W. Stanley; Zubanov, Nikolay; Chevalier, Arnaud; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006

We study the impact of labour turnover on labour productivity using a panel dataset of 347 shops belonging to a large … observe an inverted U-shape effect of labour turnover on productivity. The productivity-maximizing rates of FTE-adjusted quits … and hires are each about 20% per year, improving productivity by 2.5% compared to the zero turnover level. We explain the …

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Wage Dispersion and Firm Productivity in Different Working Environments

Mahy, Benoît; Rycx, Francois; Volral, Mélanie - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …

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