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, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …
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in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005703831
, the hypothesis that input quality and plant productivity are complementary in generating output quality. We embed this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005030891
This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...
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We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity codetermination in large firms. …
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recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers? wages. We then discuss in …
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We develop an equilibrium model of wages and estimate it using administrative data from Norway. Coworkers interact through a task-assignment model, and wages are determined through multilateral bargaining over the surplus that accrues to the workforce. Seniority affects wages through workplace...
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to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … to be more mixed and modest than expected. We suggest that this in fact should not be surprising, since economic theory …
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benign (or even positive) effects on productivity, which is one reason it has endured. Compared to other shocks that strike …
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