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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...
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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010746486
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The impact of training on productivity and wages : evidence from British panel data
Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - Department of Economic History, London School of … - 2005
It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. But there are … many reasons why wages and productivity may diverge. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of work … training, productivity and wages. Using a variety of econometric estimation techniques (including system GMM) we find that …
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The UK productivity and jobs puzzle: does the answer lie in labour market flexibility?
Pessoa, João Paulo; Van Reenen, John - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
have occurred due to changes in factor prices: a large fall in real wages and increases in the cost of capital. In previous … recessions real wages did not fall, but reforms to union strength and welfare have made wages more sensitive to negative demand …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126109
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The impact of training on productivity and wages: Evidence from British panel data
Dearden, Lorraine; Reed, Howard; Van Reenen, John - 2005
It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … an increase in hourly wages of about 0.3%. We also show evidence using individual level datasets that is suggestive of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292946
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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/10010330311
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The Creation and Capture of Rents: Wages and Innovation in a Panel of UK Companies
Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper examines the impact of technological innovation on wages using a panel of UK manufacturing firms. We utilize …. Innovating firms are found to have higher average wages, but rival innovation tends to depress own wages. This appears consistent … with a model where wages are partly determined by a sharing in the rents generated by innovation. In other words innovation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791279
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Getting a Fair Share of the Plunder? Technology, Skill and Wages in British Establishments
Van Reenen, John - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
This paper uses establishment level data from the British Workplace Industrial Relations Survey (WIRS) to examine the effects of new technology on pay. The wage differential associated with new technology is about 5-7% and is (i) robust to corrections for skill, workplace disamenities, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067373