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Developing countries have long been struggling to fight informality, focusing on instruments such as labor legislation enforcement, temporary contracts, and changes in taxes imposed on small firms. However, improvements in the labor force’s schooling and skill level may be more effective in...
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productivity is still not very clear. …
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Should one expect a worker’s productivity, and thus wage, to depend on the productivity of his/her co-workers in the … the case because social interaction among co-workers can lead to productivity spillover through knowledge spillover or … peer pressure. The available empirical evidence suggests that, due to such peer effects, co-worker productivity positively …
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This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …
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We estimate the impact of education on productivity, wage costs and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using Belgian … linked panel data. Findings highlight that educational credentials have a stronger impact on productivity than on wage costs … found to be more pronounced among younger workers and women. Findings thus suggest that the productivity to wage cost ratio …
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affect, positively or negatively, work-life balance, levels of job satisfaction and stress, and productivity. The …
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Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for …
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Evidence suggests that productivity would be much higher and unemployment much lower if the supply of and demand for …
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Informal firms make up a major share of the economy in most developing countries. Expanding formalization could increase government tax revenues, boost firm profits and national income, and increase employee well-being by improving access to social security and health and workers’ benefits....
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Using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises spanning the period 1995-2006, we analyze the link between formal sector subcontracting and informal sector employment. A novelty in our analysis is that this relationship is allowed to differ between modern and...
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