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Title: | Quality in work and aggregate productivity |
Author: | Royuela Mora, Vicente Suriñach Caralt, Jordi |
Keywords: | Productivitat Política d'ocupació Política laboral Qualitat de vida en el treball Productivity Manpower policy Labor policy Quality of work life |
Issue Date: | 2009 |
Publisher: | Universitat de Barcelona. Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública |
Series/Report no: | [WP E-IR09/01] |
Abstract: | We explore the relationship between quality in work and aggregate productivity in regions and sectors. Using recent Spanish aggregate data for the period 2001-2006, we find that quality in work may be an important factor to explain productivity levels in sectors and regions. We use two alternatives definitions of quality in work: one from survey data and the other from a social indicators approach. We also use two different measurements of labour productivity to test the robustness of our results. The estimates are run using a simultaneous equation model for our panel of data, and find important differences between high tech and low tech sectors: a positive relationship between quality in work and productivity in the former case, and a negative relationship in the latter. Consequently, on the one hand we see that quality in work is not only an objective per se, but may also be a production factor able to increase the wealth of regions; on the other hand, at the aggregate level, we may also find that high productivity levels coincide with lower quality in work conditions. |
Note: | Reproducció del document publicat a: http://www.ub.edu/irea/working_papers/2009/200901.pdf |
It is part of: | IREA – Working Papers, 2009, IR09/01 |
URI: | https://hdl.handle.net/2445/61384 |
ISSN: | 2014-1254 |
Appears in Collections: | Documents de treball (Institut de Recerca en Economia Aplicada Regional i Pública (IREA)) Documents de treball / Informes (Econometria, Estadística i Economia Aplicada) Publicacions de projectes de recerca finançats per la UE |
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