This paper uses longitudinal data of more than 13,000 firms to analyze the effects of on-the-job training on firm level productivity and wages. Workers receiving training are on average more productive than workers not receiving training. This makes firms more productive. On-the-job training increases firm level measured productivity between 1 and 2%, compared to firms that do not provide train...

OBJECTIVE To assess if organizational factors are predictors of workers' health and productivity after the World Trade Center attacks. METHODS We conducted a survey of 750 workers and compared those who had direct exposures to the World Trade Center attacks (south of Canal Street workers; primary victims) with those less directly exposed (north of Canal Street workers; other victims and non-v...

The impact of Information Technology on workplaces, individuals and society as a whole has increased dramatically during the last two decades of the 21st century. This period has seen maturation in the field of digital computing, combined with the use of telecommunications technology, in order to link many computers into what is 'virtually' a very large single network, the Internet. Data has be...

We propose a spatial search-matching model where both job creation and job destruction are endogenous. Workers are ex ante identical but not ex post since their job can be hit by a technological shock, which decreases their productivity. They reside in a city and commuting to the job center involves both pecuniary and time costs. Thus, workers with high wages are willing to live closer to jobs ...

The researchers document the individual and workplace characteristics associated with decreased work productivity and intent to stay in nursing for nurses employed in direct patient care in the hospital setting. Factors associated with decreased work productivity were age, total years worked as a RN, quality of care provided, job stress score, having had a job injury, and having a health proble...

In perfectly competitive labour markets, there is a market for non-material job amenities in which workers’ willingness to pay for these goods implies that workers accept compensating wage differentials, such that jobs with better working conditions should have lower wages. In labour market characterised by frictions, workers’ wages typically depend also on firm productivity. However many job c...

almost every experinced manager has been faced with the necessity of dealing with the problems of productivity in connection with wages and salaries. during the last two decades, governments, cultural centers, managers and ::::union::::s have focused their attention on productivity as an important subject and there have been many articles emphasizing the linkage between wages and productivity a...

Productivity is a key element in organizational management. Although it can be measured at different levels (country, sector, organization ...) this research focuses on productivity at the job level. The aim of this paper is to obtain an overview of the state of the art in productivity measurement in software engineering, including the inputs and outputs of the production process used for this ...

How does job security influence productivity? I create a dataset from the bibliographic records of the National Bureau of Economic Research working paper series and from hand collected data from individual curricula vitae to compare productivity of professors before and after tenure. This paper uses a fuzzy regression discontinuity design with fixed effects and finds that the number of papers p...

background: physical and psychological job demands in combination with the degree of control a worker has over task completion, play an important role in reducing stress. occupational stress is an important, modifiable factor affecting work disability. however, the effectiveness of reducing job demands or increasing job control remains unclear, particularly for outcomes of interest to employers...