competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level … associate higher uncertainty with more unfair environments. -- Wage dispersion ; labour productivity ; working environments …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …

endowed with both academic and non academic abilities and both abilities matter for labor productivity. We develop a simple … distribution of abilities in the population and on the marginal contribution of each ability type to individual productivity. It is …