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Managerial Practices and Students' Performance

Di Liberto, Adriana; Schivardi, Fabiano; Sulis, Giovanni - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

We study the effects of managerial practices in schools on students' outcomes. We measure managerial practices using the World Management Survey, a methodology that enables us to construct robust measures of management quality comparable across countries. We find substantial heterogeneity in...

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The Shift to Services: A Review of the Literature

Schettkat, Ronald; Yocarini, Lara - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

The present paper provides an overview of literature on the shift to services. It follows the three dimensions of structural change - final demand, the inter-industry division of labor and inter-industry productivity differences. It first looks at the ‘classics’, however (Fisher (1935),...

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The Wider Economic Impacts of High-Skilled Migrants: A Survey of the Literature

Nathan, Max - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

In recent years, the economics of migration literature has shown a substantial growth in papers exploring host country impacts beyond the labour market. Specifically, researchers have begun to shift their attention from labour market and fiscal changes, towards exploring what we might call...

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Human Capital Spillovers and Economic Performance in the Workplace in 2004: Some British Evidence

Metcalfe, Renuka; Sloane, Peter J. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This paper considers the impact of education and training on both individual and co-worker pay and establishment … Questionnaire. This enables us to assess the impact of workplace education and training using both subjective (managers’ assessments …) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

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Education, Market Rigidities and Growth

Bourlès, Renaud; Cette, Gilbert; DROMEL, Nicolas L.; … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007

This note investigates the effects of the education level, product market rigidities and employment protection …, education and rigidities are significantly related to TFP growth. The contribution of the interaction between product market …

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SME Policy and Firms’ Productivity in Latin America

Ibarrarán, Pablo; Maffioli, Alessandro; Stucchi, Rodolfo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2009

Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at the structure, mechanisms and incentives provided by these policies suggest caution in their implementation and, most importantly, the need to carefully and closely monitor their results. This paper relies on the...

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What Do Unions Do for Economic Performance?

Hirsch, Barry T. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2003

Twenty years have passed since Freeman and Medoff's What Do Unions Do? This essay assesses their analysis of how unions in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Workforce Diversity on Productivity, Wages and Profits

Garnero, Andrea; Rycx, Francois - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data. Findings, robust to a large set of covariates, specifications and econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity...

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Return of the Solow Paradox? IT, Productivity, and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing

Acemoglu, Daron; Autor, David; Dorn, David; Hanson, … - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014

An increasingly influential "technological-discontinuity" paradigm suggests that IT-induced technological changes are rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some...

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Financial Constraints and Innovation: Why Poor Countries Don't Catch Up

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy; Schnitzer, Monika - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2010

This paper examines micro-level channels of how financial development can affect macroeconomic outcomes like the level of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey...

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