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Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity

Li, Teng; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2015

We examine day-to-day fluctuations in worker-level output over 15 months for a panel of 98 manufacturing workers at a plant located in an industrial city in Hebei province, north China. Long-term workers earn piece-rate wages, with no base pay or minimum pay, for homogeneous tasks performed over...

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Measurement of Environmentally Sensitive Productivity Growth in Korean Industries

Chung, Yeimin; Heshmati, Almas - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

efficient technology and profitability obtain a higher productivity growth rate in comparison with their low energy efficient …

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Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA

Nagler, Paula; Naudé, Wim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

Although non-farm enterprises are ubiquitous in rural Sub-Saharan Africa, little is yet known about their productivity. In this paper we contribute to filling this gap by providing estimates of labor productivity in enterprises for Ethiopia, Malawi, Nigeria, and Uganda. Using the World Bank's...

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Do Cows Have Negative Returns? The Evidence Revisited

Gehrke, Esther; Grimm, Michael - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper addresses the apparent paradox between widespread support of cattle farming by agricultural policy interventions and negative returns to cattle as stressed in recent works. Using a representative panel dataset for Andhra Pradesh, a state in the south of India, we examine average and...

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Age and Gender Composition of the Workforce, Productivity and Profits: Evidence from a New Type of Data for German Enterprises

Pfeifer, Christian; Wagner, Joachim - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2012

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from …' profitability, which is consistent with deferred compensation considerations. Moreover, our analysis reveals for the first time that … with a lower level of profitability in these firms. If anything, profitability is (slightly) higher in firms with a larger …

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Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools

Hart, Cassandra M. D.; Sojourner, Aaron J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

This paper studies the relationship between teacher unionization and student achievement. Generally stable patterns of teacher unionization since the 1970s have historically presented challenges in measuring the effects of unionization on educational production. However, the blossoming of the...

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Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry

Boyer, Kenneth D.; Burks, Stephen V. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

Mirroring the railroad industry of the 1940’s and 1950’s, the trucking industry today appears to be achieving impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in ton-miles per unit of input that are due simply to...

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Is Germany the North Star of Labor Market Policy?

Rinne, Ulf; Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany's recovery from an unemployment disease and its resilience to the Great Recession is remarkable. Its success story makes it a showcase for labor policy and labor market reforms. This paper assesses the potential of the German experience as a model for effective, evidence-based...

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Making Sense of Arab Labor Markets: The Enduring Legacy of Dualism

Assaad, Ragui - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

It is well-established that Arab labor markets share certain common characteristics, including an oversized public sector, high unemployment for educated youth, weak private sector dependent on government welfare for their survival, rapid growth in educational attainment, but much of it focused...

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Labor Market Reforms and the Great Recession

Zimmermann, Klaus F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

Germany can be regarded as a showcase for labor market reforms. Moreover, its labor market responded only mildly to the Great Recession. This paper assesses the role of the labor market reforms for the latter development. Against this background, general lessons are drawn from the German...

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