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With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct...
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Community Household Panel (INE, 1994-2001) to estimate the effect of labour market training on wage growth for both female and … measure the effect of training we differentiate among employer-financed and self-employed training as well as indicators, and … later include variables for training length and intensity. Our results show that, indeed, training investments provide …
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Competitiveness in Spain has deteriorated dramatically over the past decade driven mainly by a decrease in labour productivity. Since the onset of the current crisis, however, there were some signs of recovery in labour productivity, which accompanied by well design policies could lead to a...
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-based training, as well as its relative intensity. Relying on a job competition mechanism of skill formation, we stress the role of … the strategic complementarity between innovation and firm organization. Our results show that training propensity is … hold particularly for the decision to provide both formal and informal training together. Finally, R&D and techno …
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We develop measures of labor-saving and labor-augmenting technology exposure using textual analysis of patents and job tasks. Using US administrative data, we show that both measures negatively predict earnings growth of individual incumbent workers. While labor-saving technologies predict...
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Building on Layard and Jackman's framework, we propose a simple model to analyse the relation between labour productivity and unemployment regional differentials in Italy and present some panel data evidence to support the theoretical predictions of the model. The empirical analysis strongly...
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The Walrasian theory of labor market equilibrium predicts that in the absence of any market frictions, workers earn a wage rate equal to their marginal productivity. In this paper, based on the neoclassical tradition, the authors define the ratio of the marginal product of labor to real wages as...
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This paper reports about a randomized experiment in which training vouchers of €1000 were given to low-skilled workers …. The vouchers increase training participation by almost 20 percentage points in two years, relative to a base rate of 0 … capital theory, we find that vouchers cause a shift towards more general forms of training. We do not find any significant …
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This paper investigates whether on-the-job training has an effect on the employability of workers. Using data from the … Netherlands we disentangle the true effect of training incidence from the spurious one determined by unobserved individual … receiving firm-provided training. We find that firm-provided training significantly increases future employment prospects. This …
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We study the effect of product-market volatility on a firm's choice between multiskilling and specialization. We construct a theoretical model that captures the tradeoff between multiskilling (which gives greater flexibility to reassign workers in production) and specialization (which provides...
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