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We estimate the aggregate productivity gains from reducing barriers to internal labor migration in Indonesia … attract workers. We find modest but important aggregate impacts. We estimate a 22% increase in labor productivity from … removing all barriers. Reducing migration costs to the US level, a high mobility benchmark, leads to an 8% productivity boost …
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productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of …
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The effect of coworkers on the learning and the productivity of an individual is measured combining theory and data …
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how this leads to an underestimation of productivity growth in the early years of a new GPT, and how later, when the … benefits of intangible investments are harvested, productivity growth will be overestimated. Our model generates a Productivity … J-Curve that can explain the productivity slowdowns often accompanying the advent of GPTs, as well as the increase in …
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. Second, density of physical capital in a city outside a plant has no effect on a plant's productivity. Third, most of the … productivity differences between cities with high and low levels of human capital match remarkably well differences in labor costs … equilibrium forces and spillovers, the productivity gains generated by human capital spillover are offset by increased labor costs …
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the impact of workplace practices, information technology and human capital investments on productivity. We estimate an … within and GMM estimators. We find that what is associated with higher productivity is not so much whether or not an employer … practices that promote joint decision making coupled with incentive based compensation have higher productivity than other …
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We document substantial within-country (cross-municipality) differences in incomes for a large number of countries in the Americas. A significant fraction of the within-country differences cannot be explained by observed human capital. We conjecture that the sources of within-country and...
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productivity. HRM includes incentive pay (individual and group) as well as many non-pay aspects of the employment relationship such … literature on management practices and productivity. We start with some facts on levels and trends of both HRM and productivity … regulation. The largest section analyses the impact of HRM on productivity emphasizing issues of methodology, data and results …
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overall productivity level of the economy. A comprehensive income tax, applying to both labour income and capital income … productivity, the adverse effect of income taxation on human capital investments is significantly magnified …
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