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' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …
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early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures of cognitive and socio-emotional skills and … a latent factor structure to estimate flexible skills production functions between the ages of 8 and 22. We focus …-emotional skills can be separated into two distinct domains - social skills and task effectiveness skills- which develop differently …
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, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, economic uncertainty is systematically found to accentuate the detrimental effect of under-education on productivity …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of … adjustment was almost entirely due to changing skill composition within continuing firms …
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the Covid-19 pandemic on firms' investment in workforce training and transitions in and out of training. We find that … element for firms and their workforce to adjust to the post-pandemic environment, asymmetries in training investment could …European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms …
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We estimate month-of-birth effects on cognitive and noncognitive skills, as well as factors relevant to skill formation …. Our estimates indicate that younger students in a given grade cohort have lower cognitive and noncognitive skills. To shed … compensatory investment in cognitive skills by younger children, however, they are also more likely to have poor …
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investment in job training than larger firms. Therefore, our findings call for caution when designing pro-SME policies fostering …
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stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more … classroom training. We then demonstrate that on-the-job training has a positive impact on firm-level productivity through …
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