Is There a Wage Payoff to Innovative Work Practices ?
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This paper has been prepared for the Jerome Levy Economics Institute Workshop on Earnings Inequality, Technology, and Institutions, June 8-10, 1999. We thank participants for their helpful comments. The authors also wish to thank Michael Piore, Paul Osterman, and other participants in the MIT Industrial Relations Seminar. The views expressed are those of the authors and should not be attributed to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics.
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تاریخ انتشار 1999