Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One … interpretation of this result is that individuals learn higher value skills in cities than they would have learned in less dense … time spent in the urban environment (and thus learning), or job changes. The evidence suggests that both these processes …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … where it does not properly measure technology) and makes it possible to calculate the contributions of disaggregated units …-level (EU-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions about technology and market structure (firms …

This paper explores how firms' skills and organizational change affect the returns from investments in ICT. Our work …. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …

infrastructure, like education and skills, in order to reap the benefits from ICT investment. Technology by itself is not a solution …The benefits from the New Economy should accrue as improvements in productivity and economic growth. But while the use … of information and communication technology seems to have had a substantial impact on the performance of the United …

" organization (featuring job rotation, integration of tasks and learning across tasks). We examine four driving forces behind this …

importance. We derive a dynamic model of learning and productivity that nests both models and allows them to coexist. We estimate … correlates of productivity, as opposed to the empirical evidence on employer learning which uses one fixed measure. Second, we … that over time, either firms learn about worker productivity but productivity remains fixed or workers' productivities …

of the employment relationship. Furthermore, we show that there are peer effects in learning on-the-job: Workers placed …

Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a …

-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …