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Production Hierarchies in Sweden
Tåg, Joacim - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2013
I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have more workers and lower mean wage than higher layers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818513
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap
Meyerson, Eva M.; Petersen, Trond; Snartland, Vemund - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. <p> The main finding is that the productivity differences between sexes in … or less independent of supposed productivity differences between men and women, while under piece-rate work. The wage gap …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011019064
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training
Kazamaki Ottersten, Eugenia; Lindh, Thomas; Mellander, Erik - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …
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Cost and Productivity Effects of Firm Financed Training.
Ottersten, E.K.; Lindh, T.; Mellander, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1996
the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005486498
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Are Female Workers Less Productive Than Male Workers? Productivity and the Gender Wage Gap?
Meyerson, E.M.; Petersen, T.; Snartland, V. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1998
performed, wages should in principle reflect productivity differences and that it is more difficult to discriminate on the basis … of the gap is due to productivity differences. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005670114
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Is Human Capital the Key to the IT Productivity Paradox?
Mellander, Erik; Savvidiou, Eleni; Gunnarsson, Gudmundur - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005419532
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Is Human Capital the Key to the IT Productivity Paradox?.
Gunnarsson, G.; Mellander, E.; Savvidou, E. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2001
Unlike previous analyses, we consider (i) that IT may affect productivity growth both directly and indirectly, through …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005639301
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Are CEOs Born Leaders? Lessons from Traits of a Million Individuals
Keloharju, Matti; Knüpfer, Samuli - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 2014
Our study combines a near-exhaustive sample of CEOs of Swedish companies with data on their cognitive and non-cognitive ability and height at age 18. Although CEOs, and large-company CEOs in particular, have better traits than the population on average, they are neither exceptional in any of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255285
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Rates of Depreciation of Human Capital Due to Nonuse
Gustafsson, Siv - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1977
year period for individual salaried employees in Swedish Industry makes possible the estimation of the effect of years of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684420
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Overtime and Sticky Manufacturing Wages: Do Trade and Technology Matter?
Stafford, Frank P.; Stobernack, Michael O. - Institutet för Näringslivsforskning (IFN) - 1989
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Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010684467