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While the output of a team is evident, the productivity of each team member is typically not readily identifiable. In … this paper we consider the problem of measuring the productivity of team members. We propose a new concept of coworker … productivity, which we refer to as eigenvalue productivity (EVP). We demonstrate the existence and uniqueness of our concept and …
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Usually, groups increase their productivity by the specialization of their group members. In these cases, group output …
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incentives. We find that social incentives lead to a 13% rise in productivity, regardless of their form (lump sum or related to … performance) or strength. The response is strong for subjects with low initial productivity (30%), while high-productivity … increase in private compensation for low productivity subjects reveals that the former are less effective in increasing …
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The aggregate labor share in U.S. manufacturing declined dramatically over the last three decades: Since the mid-1980's, the compensation for labor declined from 67% to 47% of value added which is unseen in any other sector of the U.S. economy. The labor share of the typical U.S. manufacturing...
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total factor productivity growth (TFPG). Embedding Dobbelaere and Mairesse's (2009) generalization of Hall's (1990) approach … competition measure does not affect the level of productivity change …
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This paper studies the productivity impact of a contract change for tea pluckers in an Indian plantation. The contract …
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This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D to innovation and innovation to productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …
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firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are … by the Canada-US border. We find that Canadian average labor productivity increases by 8.03%, whereas US average labor … productivity rises by just 1.02%. Consumers' exposure to market power falls sizably by up to 12.11% in the Canadian provinces, and …
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Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …
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demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …
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