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Nickell, Stephen; Wadhwani, Sushil B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

productivity relative to the aggregate economy leads to a rise in relative wages of 0.1-0.2%. As a corollary to this, outside …

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Wages and Productivity Growth in a Dynamic Monopoly

Bester, Helmut; Petrakis, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches …

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Demand- and Supply-Side Policies and Unemployment: Policy Implications of the Insider-Outsider Approach

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …

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Manufacturing and the Convergence Hypothesis: What the Long Run Data Show

Broadberry, Stephen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

The commonly accepted chronology for comparative productivity levels based on GDP data does not apply to the manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity performance among the major industrialized countries of Germany,...

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Productivity, Wages and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the US, Japan and Europe

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

This paper studies the dynamic behaviour of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data … exaggerated in recent work. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the United States … any of the benefits of increased output. The analysis of real wages also yields new results. A consistent treatment of the …

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Comparative Productivity in East and West German Manufacturing Before Reunification

Van Ark, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We provide comparisons between East and West Germany before reunification of relative levels of output per hour in manufacturing industries. The comparisons are based on the industry of origin approach which makes use of information on value added and employment derived from production...

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Performance-Related Pay

Booth, Alison L; Frank, Jeff - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1997

find that PRP raises wages by about 9% for men and 6% for women over the entire (union and non-union) sample. Our …

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The Contributions from Firm Entry, Exit and Continuation to Labour Productivity Growth in New Zealand

Law, David; McLellan, Nathan - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2005

This paper evaluates the contributions from firm entry, exit and continuation to labour productivity growth in New Zealand over the period 1995 to 2003. Decomposition techniques developed by Griliches and Regev (1995) and by Foster, Haltiwanger and Krizan (1998) are employed. Results suggest...

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Productivity Differences

Acemoglu, Daron; Zilibotti, Fabrizio - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000

Many technologies used by the LDCs are developed in the OECD economies and are designed to make optimal use of the skills of these richer countries' workforces. Differences in the supply of skills create a mismatch between the requirements of these technologies and the skills of LDC workers, and...

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Does Quality Matter in Labour Input? The Changing Pattern of Labour Composition in New Zealand

Szeto, Kam Leong; McLoughlin, Simon - Treasury, Government of New Zealand - 2008

The composition of the New Zealand workforce has changed considerably over the past two decades. Qualification levels have risen, labour force participation has trended upwards for women, immigrants have increasingly been sourced from Asia, and the large baby-boom cohort has contributed to an...

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