...Xuyang Du; Conghui Bai; Lingli Guo Purpose Population aging is a global challenge, particularly for developing countries that heavily rely on low-cost labor and the manufacturing industry. However, current research oversimplifies the assessment of aging's effect on labor productivity by only...

...Caroline Krafft; Ragui Assaad Purpose This paper aims to investigate the wage-productivity relationship at the firm level in Egypt. It quantifies the relative role of factors related to the use of efficiency wages (paying higher than market wages to improve worker quality, effort and retention...

...Ngoc Hân Nguyen; Wendy Smits; Mark Vancauteren Purpose We aim to elucidate the relationship between fixed-term employment and firm productivity by examining workers’ skills and considering how firm-level conversion rates influence this relationship. Design/methodology/approach We use...

... to firm performance, the authors' estimates suggest that signing a CCA is associated with an average increase of 3% in total factor productivity (TFP) and 7.8% in labour productivity. By investigating the contents of the complementarity agreements, the authors show that bargaining a wider range of topics...

...Navya Kumar; Swati Alok; Sudatta Banerjee Purpose Even after COVID-19 pandemic, several organizations intend extending work-from-home (WFH), to the extent of making it permanent for many. However, WFH's impact on productivity remains uncertain. Therefore, this paper aims to study personal and job...

...Diti Goswami Purpose This study aims to examine the association between productivity growth and job reallocation in terms of job creation and job destruction. It also finds this productivity employment relationship for heterogeneous labor market institutions of the Indian states. Design...

...Naouel Ben Jemaa Cherif Purpose The purpose of this paper is to investigate the impact of training on labor productivity and wages in order to examine how the benefits from training are shared between employers and employees. Design/methodology/approach This study analyzes an industry panel...

... effects on wages, employment, and productivity in China. The relationships between unionization and these three economic variables are first tested at the national level and then examined in the eastern, central, and western regions, respectively. Provincial-level panel data from 1994 to 2014...

...Uku Varblane; Sven-Kristjan Bormann Purpose The purpose of this paper is to contribute to the literature on learning by exporting by investigating whether an increase in the complexity of exported products contributes to higher productivity at the firm level. Design/methodology/approach...

...Navaneethakrishnan Kengatharan Purpose Drawing on the knowledge-based theory of the firm, the purpose of this paper is to examine the relationship between each facet of intellectual capital, productivity and firms’ performance and further investigate, heretofore neglected, a mediating effect...

...). Differences in company-nurtured resilience are related to categories such as productivity, products diversification, human capital structure, human resources management, innovation results, technology, and a productive environment. Research limitations/implications The main limitation is that the applied...

...Annette van den Berg; Arjen van Witteloostuijn; Olivier Van der Brempt Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine whether works councils (WCs) in Belgium have a positive effect on firm performance, notably productivity and profitability, while taking the role of trade unions into account...

...Jozef Konings, François Rycx and Vincent Vandenberghe; Andrea Garnero; Romina Giuliano; Benoit Mahy; François Rycx Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to estimate the impact of fixed-term contracts (FTCs) on labour productivity, wages (i.e. labour cost), and productivity-wage gaps (i.e...

... is to identify relationships between human capital and cultural capital, in the context of local labour market productivity. Design/methodology/approach – As the key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are both the locally generated through investment in education and the inflowing...

... – In the empirical analyses it is shown that employment is lower when the degree of diversity is higher, regarding the revenue of an individual establishment as given. From this result it can be derived under the conditions of monopolistic competition (implying elastic product demand) that the establishment is able...

...Ana Sofia Lopes; Paulino Teixeira Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate the extent to which the productivity gains associated with workplace training are shared by both the firms concerned and their workers. The approach is both theoretical and empirical as an explicit formula...

...Guido Citoni; Benoît Mahy; François Rycx; Alessandra Cataldi; Stephan Kampelmann; François Rycx Purpose The purpose of this paper is to evaluate empirically the relationship between workforce age, wage and productivity at the firm level. Design/methodology/approach Panel data techniques...

... predicts that these types of fringe benefits could at least partially pay for themselves through a combination of increased productivity and lower wages. A survey of 120 employers in an upstate New York county provides data on benefits packages and outcome measures that are used to test this hypothesis. We...

...Liang‐Hsuan Chen; Shu‐Yi Liaw; Tzai‐Zang Lee Manufacturing firms are always faced with the problem of promoting operational performance and labor‐force management. The utilization of human resources is closely correlated with operations and production performance. This study investigates...

... into a more severe recession, it is probable that trade unions will become more detrimental and aggressive. Second, we cannot say that all trade unions are productivity‐enhancing and cooperative. In other words, the trade unions that are surveyed and sampled in the book might be more cooperative than average...