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income. We also show that the effect of migration operates through an increase in total factor productivity, which appears to …
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We use data on international chess tournaments to study the relationship between age and mental productivity in a brain … age on productivity vary with unobserved ability, commonly used fixed effects estimators applied to raw data do not … guarantee consistent estimates of age-productivity profiles. In our data, this method strongly over-estimates the productivity …
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structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …
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concerns about labor productivity and about economic outcomes at both the individual, enterprise, and macro levels. The …, workforce productivity, and economic performance. Taken as a whole, the articles dispel some of the concerns, sharpen our …
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In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …
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increase productivity. One important implication of the model is that the enrolment rate to education has a negative effect on …
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unemployment response; and the very slow rate of recovery. We review the literature which finds most of the decline in productivity … intensification but employers appeared incapable of turning this effort into improved workplace level productivity. Widespread pay …
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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …
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results provide evidence that for institutions where employee retention and productivity are a priority, maximizing or … offering dependent college tuition waiver may be a relatively low-cost benefit to increase intended retention and productivity … predictors of intended increased productivity and intent to stay employed at the current institution. Employee retention and …
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This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …
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