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managerial changes does make a difference for plant productivity, less so for wages. In electronics, the Finnish industry … either for wages in electronics. These conclusions survive when a host of other plausible productivity determinants (notably … providing evidence on the age-productivity and age-earnings profiles for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries …
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Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …
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This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manufacturing is competitive because …
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increase firm performance in general and enterprise productivity in particular by introducing PRP and if so, how much. However … novel and rigorous evidence on the productivity effect of varying attributes of PRP and shows that the details of PRP indeed … establish that the omitted variable bias is serious, makes the cross-sectional estimates on the productivity effect of the …
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wages than women, while the results concerning gender differences in the returns to career progression are not clearcut, but …
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In Finnish manufacturing, the gender wage gap more than doubles during the first ten years in the labor market. This paper studies the factors contributing to the gender gap in early-career wage growth. The analysis shows that the size of the gender gap in wage growth varies with mobility status...
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lower wages than those staying in the wage sector. This difference appears to be larger in Europe than in the US … negatively with unobserved ability and/or in-paid-employment productivity. Our analysis of non-wage outcomes indicates that the …
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The impact of parental leave on women`s carees and earnings - A literature review The role of various child care leaves in the family gap in pay remains unclear. This survey on international literature sheds light on the impact of career interruptions due to the care of newborns on womens career...
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