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The UK productivity jobs puzzle : does the answer lie in labour market flexibility?
Pessoa, Joao Paulo; Van Reenen, John - 2013
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The UK productivity and jobs puzzle : does the answer lie in wage flexibility?
Pesson, João Paulo; Van Reenen, John - In: The economic journal : the journal of the Royal … 124 (2014) 576, pp. 433-452
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The creation and capture of rents : wages and innovation in a panel of UK companies
Van Reenen, John - In: The quarterly journal of economics 111 (1996) 1, pp. 195-226
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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...
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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 …
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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 …
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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 …
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The Aggregate Labor Market Effects of the Swedish Knowledge Lift Program
Albrecht, James; Berg, Gerard J. van den; Vroman, Susan - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
The Swedish adult education program known as the Knowledge Lift (1997-2002) was unprecedented in its size and scope, aiming to raise the skill level of large numbers of lowskill workers. This paper evaluates the potential effects of this program on aggregate labor market outcomes. This is done...
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Multiple Equilibria and Minimum Wages in Labor Markets with Informational Frictions and Heterogeneous Production Technologies
Berg, Gerard J. van den - Tinbergen Instituut - 1999
of a minimum wage affects wages even though, after imposition, the lowest wage in the market exceeds the minimum wage …, and subsequent abolition of the minimum wage does not affect wages. The model has multiple equilibria as a result of the …
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Privatization, entry regulation and the decline of labor's share of GDP: a cross-country analysis of the network industries
Azmat, Ghazala; Manning, Alan; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
labor share, employment and wages respond to privatization and other regulatory changes. We exploit cross-country panel data …
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