among youngsters and women. Policies aiming to increase their employability either try to foster their productivity and …/or to decrease their wage cost. Yet, the evidence on the misalignment between education-induced productivity gains and … evidence on the moderating roles of age, gender and industry in the relationship between education, productivity and wage costs …

This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …