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The UK productivity jobs puzzle : does the answer lie in labour market flexibility?
Pessoa, Joao Paulo; Van Reenen, John - 2013
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009756871
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Management practices, workforce selection, and productivity
Bender, Stefan; Bloom, Nicholas; Card, David E.; Van … - 2016
Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of advanced management practices. Many of these practices - including monitoring, goal setting, and the use of incentives - are mediated through employee decision-making and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458600
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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001362999
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A cross-country comparison of labor market frictions
Ridder, Geert; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2002
applied to aggregate duration data. It does not require wage data, it is invariant to the way in which wages are determined …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011574924
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Causes of changing earnings inequality
Snower, Dennis J. - 1999
This paper surveys major empirical regularities concerning changes in earnings inequality in Europe and the U.S. over the past 25 years. Next, it indicates which of these regularities can be explained within the competitive demand-supply framework of analysis and what is left unexplained....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011294713
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Who gains when workers train? : training and corporate productivity in a panel of British industries
Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2000
Force Survey. This is combined with complementary industry-level data sources on value added, wages, labour and capital. We …There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537524
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From giving birth to paid labor : the effects of adult education for prime-aged mothers
Bergemann, Annette; Berg, Gerard J. van den - 2014
education shows positive effects for the unemployed with respect to both the employment probability and wages. To explain the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010251042
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Getting a fair share of the plunder? : Technology, skill and wages in British establishments
Van Reenen, John - 1994
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Equilibrium search with productivity dispersion : theory and estimation
Bontemps, Christian; Robin, Jean-Marc; Berg, Gerard J. … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000961970
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Equilibrium search with productivity dispersion : theory and estimation
Bontemps, Christian; Robin, Jean-Marc; Berg, Gerard J. … - 1997
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10000966957