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Nickell, Stephen; Wadhwani, Sushil B - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

productivity relative to the aggregate economy leads to a rise in relative wages of 0.1-0.2%. As a corollary to this, outside …

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Wages and Productivity Growth in a Dynamic Monopoly

Bester, Helmut; Petrakis, Emmanuel - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

to reduce its labour costs. If the level of wages is sufficiently low, the firm's rate of productivity growth approaches …

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Demand- and Supply-Side Policies and Unemployment: Policy Implications of the Insider-Outsider Approach

Lindbeck, Assar; Snower, Dennis J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1989

labor costs. Our analysis indicates that when wages and prices are flexible, product demand policies have no significant …

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Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century

Li, Bozhong; Zanden, Jan Luiten Van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

The debate about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe has taken a new turn with the publication of Kenneth Pomeranz’ book on ‘The Great Divergence’, in which he maintains that before the Industrial Revolution the most advanced parts of China (in particular the...

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Revisiting U. S. productivity Growth over the Past Century with a View of the Future

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010

This paper provides three perspectives on long-run growth rates of labor productivity (LP) and of multi-factor productivity (MFP) for the U. S. economy. It extracts statistical growth trends for labor productivity from quarterly data for the total economy going back to 1952, provides new...

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How Did Japan Catch-Up On The West? A Sectoral Analysis Of Anglo-Japanese Productivity Differences, 1885-2000

Broadberry, Stephen N; Fukao, Kyoji; Zammit, Nick - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2015

exporter of manufactured goods not simply by catching-up in labour productivity terms, but by holding the growth of real wages …

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Manufacturing and the Convergence Hypothesis: What the Long Run Data Show

Broadberry, Stephen N - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

The commonly accepted chronology for comparative productivity levels based on GDP data does not apply to the manufacturing sector, where there is evidence of a much greater degree of stationarity of comparative labour productivity performance among the major industrialized countries of Germany,...

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Productivity, Wages and Prices Inside and Outside of Manufacturing in the US, Japan and Europe

Gordon, Robert J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1986

This paper studies the dynamic behaviour of changes in productivity, wages, and prices. Results are based on a new data … exaggerated in recent work. Europe has neither greater nominal wage flexibility nor more rigid real wages than the United States … any of the benefits of increased output. The analysis of real wages also yields new results. A consistent treatment of the …

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Gielen, Anne; Kerkhofs, Marcel J M; Ours, Jan C van - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006

This paper uses information from a panel of Dutch firms to investigate the labour productivity effects of performance related pay (PRP). We find that PRP increases labour productivity at the firm level with about 9%.

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Comparative Productivity in East and West German Manufacturing Before Reunification

Van Ark, Bart - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994

We provide comparisons between East and West Germany before reunification of relative levels of output per hour in manufacturing industries. The comparisons are based on the industry of origin approach which makes use of information on value added and employment derived from production...

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