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44 IZA Discussion Papers
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13711
The Ties That Bind Us: Social Networks and Productivity in the Factory
Farzana Afridi, Amrita Dhillon, Swati Sharma
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13369
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
Hyejin Ku
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13369
Does Minimum Wage Increase Labor Productivity? Evidence from Piece Rate Workers
Hyejin Ku
forthcoming in: Journal of Labor Economics
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13285
Management Practices, Worker Commitment, and Workplace Representation
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
IZA Discussion Paper No. 13072
Induced Innovation: Evidence from China's Secondary Industry
Belton M. Fleisher, William H. McGuire, Xiaojun Wang, Min Qiang Zhao
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12379
Labor Productivity during the Great Depression in UK Manufacturing
Robert A. Hart
IZA Discussion Paper No. 12216
Trust and Workplace Performance
John T. Addison, Paulino Teixeira
revised version published in: British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2020, 58 (4), 874-903.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 11115
Productivity and Health: Alternative Productivity Estimates Using Physical Activity
Oladele Akogun, Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Ashesh Prasann, Pieter Serneels
forthcoming in: World Bank Economic Review, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10644
The Selection and Causal Effects of Work Incentives on Labor Productivity: Evidence from a Two-Stage Randomized Controlled Trial in Malawi
Hyuncheol Bryant Kim, Seonghoon Kim, Thomas T. Kim
IZA Discussion Paper No. 10370
Management Practices and Productivity in Germany
Sandra Broszeit, Ursula Fritsch, Holger Görg, Marie-Christine Laible
published in: German Economic Review, 2019, 20 (4), e663-e688
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9098
Norwegian Rhapsody? The Political Economy Benefits of Regional Integration
Nauro F. Campos, Fabrizio Coricelli, Luigi Moretti
IZA Discussion Paper No. 9095
Not Working at Work: Loafing, Unemployment and Labor Productivity
Michael C. Burda, Katie R. Genadek, Daniel S. Hamermesh
part of this paper forthcoming as "Unemployment and Effort at Work" in: Economica, 2019
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8945
Wage Setting in the Colombian Manufacturing Industry
Sonia A. Agudelo, Hector Sala
published in: Economics of Transition, 2016, 24 (1), 99-134
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8916
Severe Air Pollution and Labor Productivity: Evidence from Industrial Towns in China
Jiaxiu He, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8891
The Spanish Productivity Puzzle in the Great Recession
Laura Hospido, Eva Moreno-Galbis
published in: Philippe Askenazy, Lutz Bellmann, Alex Bryson, and Eva Moreno Galbis (eds.), Productivity Puzzles Across Europe, Oxford University Press, 2016, ISBN: 9780198786160, Chapter 8,
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8524
Labor Productivity in Rural African Enterprises: Empirical Evidence from the LSMS-ISA
Paula Nagler, Wim Naudé
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8240
Impacts of Unionization on Quality and Productivity: Regression Discontinuity Evidence from Nursing Homes
Aaron Sojourner, Brigham R. Frandsen, Robert J. Town, David C. Grabowski, Michelle M. Chen
published in: Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 2015, 68 (4), 771 - 806 https://doi.org/10.1177/0019793915586380
IZA Discussion Paper No. 8074
Health Information, Treatment, and Worker Productivity: Experimental Evidence from Malaria Testing and Treatment among Nigerian Sugarcane Cutters
Andrew Dillon, Jed Friedman, Pieter Serneels
forthcoming in: Journal of the European Economic Association, 2020
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7887
Unionization and Productivity: Evidence from Charter Schools
Cassandra M. D. Hart, Aaron Sojourner
Published in: Industrial Relations. 2015. 55(4): 422-448
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7762
The Skill Complementarity of Broadband Internet
Anders Akerman, Ingvil Gaarder, Magne Mogstad
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7323
Offshoring and Productivity Revisited: A Time-Series Analysis
Pablo Agnese
publsihed as 'Offshoring and Productivity from a Time-Series Perspective' in: Advances on International Economics, Cambridge Scholars Publishing, September 2015, 139-158
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7297
Immigration and Labor Productivity: New Empirical Evidence for Spain
Catia Nicodemo
IZA Discussion Paper No. 7080
The Returns to Language Skills in the US Labor Market
Ingo E. Isphording, Mathias Sinning
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6532
Gender Effects of Education on Economic Development in Turkey
Aysit Tansel, Nil Demet Güngör
published in: Journal of Economic Studies, 2013, 40 (6), 794-821.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6263
Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
Biwei Su, Almas Heshmati
Published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2014, 2(2), 1-30.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6263
Development and Sources of Labor Productivity in Chinese Provinces
Biwei Su, Almas Heshmati
Published in: China Economic Policy Review, 2014, 2(2), 1-30.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 6171
Labor Productivity and Vocational Training: Evidence from Europe
Hector Sala, José I. Silva
published in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2013, 40 (1), 31-41
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5719
Wage Adjustment and Productivity Shocks
Mikael Carlsson, Julián Messina, Oskar Nordström Skans
substantially revised version published in The Economic Journal, 2016, vol 126(595): 1739–1773
IZA Discussion Paper No. 5447
Workplace Performance, Worker Commitment and Loyalty
Sarah Brown, Jolian McHardy, Robert McNabb, Karl Taylor
published in: Journal of Economics and Management Strategy, 2011, 20 (3), 925-955
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4755
Are Happiness and Productivity Lower among University Students with Newly-Divorced Parents? An Experimental Approach
Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi, Andrew J. Oswald
published in: Experimental Economics, 2012, 15 (1), 1-23
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4645
Happiness and Productivity
Andrew J. Oswald, Eugenio Proto, Daniel Sgroi
revised version published in: Journal of Labor Economics, 2015, 33 (4), 789-822
IZA Discussion Paper No. 4174
Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker and Firm Heterogeneity
Anabela Carneiro, Paulo Guimaraes, Pedro Portugal
published as 'Real Wages and the Business Cycle: Accounting for Worker, Firm and Job-Title Heterogeneity' in American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics, 2012, 4(2)
IZA Discussion Paper No. 3227
Steering towards the High Road: A Study of Human Resource Management in Two Indian Garment Factories
Henrietta Lake
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2932
Performance Pay, Training and Labor Mobility
Anne C. Gielen
revised version published as 'Profit Sharing for Increased Training Investments' in: British Journal of Industrial Relations. 2011, 49 (4), 643-665.
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2576
Stuck in the Slow Lane: Traffic Composition and the Measurement of Labor Productivity in the U.S. Trucking Industry
Kenneth D. Boyer, Stephen V. Burks
published in: Southern Economic Journal, 75 (4), 2009, 1220-1237
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2571
Do Employment Protections Reduce Productivity? Evidence from U.S. States
David Autor, William Kerr, Adriana Kugler
published in: Economic Journal, 2007, 117 (521), F189 - F217
IZA Discussion Paper No. 2211
Performance Related Pay and Labor Productivity
Anne C. Gielen, Marcel Kerkhofs, Jan C. van Ours
published in: Journal of Population Economics, 2010, 23 (1), 291-301
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1685
An Empirical Model of Growth Through Product Innovation
Rasmus Lentz, Dale T. Mortensen
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1414
Works Councils, Labor Productivity and Plant Heterogeneity: Evidence from Quantile Regressions
Joachim Wagner, John T. Addison, Claus Schnabel, Thorsten Schank
published in: Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik , 2006, 226 (5), 505-518
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1264
Unions, Training, and Firm Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Employee Relations Survey
John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield
published as 'Unions, Training, and Firm Performance' in: Journal of Labor Market Research/Zeitschrift für ArbeitsmarktForschung, 2007, 40 (4), 361-381
IZA Discussion Paper No. 1019
Public Infrastructure as a Determinant of Intertemporal and Interregional Productive Performance in China
Feng-Cheng Fu, Chu-Ping C. Vijverberg, Wim P. Vijverberg
revised version published as 'Public infrastructure as a determinant of productive performance in China' in: Journal of Productivity Analysis, 2011. 36 (1), 91 - 111
IZA Discussion Paper No. 479
Unions and Employment Growth: The One Constant?
John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield
published in: Industrial Relations, 2004, 43 (2), 305-323
IZA Discussion Paper No. 455
Unions and Establishment Performance: Evidence from the British Workplace Industrial/Employee Relations Surveys
John T. Addison, Clive R. Belfield
published in: Phanindra V. Wunnava (ed.), The Changing Role of Unions: New Forms of Representation, Armonk, N.Y.: M.E. Sharpe, April 2004
IZA Discussion Paper No. 40
Empirical Findings on the Swiss Migration Experience
Stefan M. Golder, Thomas Straubhaar
published in: Klaus F. Zimmermann (ed.): European Migration - What Do We Know?, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2005
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