productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …-SYS estimates that over-educated native workers are in fact underpaid to a greater extent than their over-educated immigrant …

whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … employ low-skilled migrants, we use the local number of restaurants with foreign cuisines and the historical presence of …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

ability and the accumulation of human capital. Workers may move between two occupational sectors that require cognitive …-worker productivity matches. Estimating this model using longitudinal administrative data over three decades, we show that RM skills are a …

Austria that allowed workers in eligible regions to exit the labor force 3 years earlier compared to workers in non … induced eligible workers to exit the labor force significantly earlier. Instrumental variable estimation results show that for …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible … incidence of cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain …

Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … blue-collar workers' sickness absences was abolished (firms did not receive a similar refund for their white-collar workers …