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industries have declined, while others flourished. Furthermore, new technologies and structural change create new skills and new … policies; ii) education and skills; to ensure adequate skills for accessing good quality jobs; and iii) urban environments …
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sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …
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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 effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …
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a rising inequality in wages – mostly through rapid earnings increases among top earners - this has been offset by …
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Australia has a dynamic labour market with high job turnover. According to the HILDA Survey data, about one-fifth of all employees separate from their job every year, and about one fifth of those are displaced workers - laid off for economic reasons. Using multivariate probit regression we find...
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micro-data. The most common employment obstacles in Australia are limited work experience, low skills and poor health. A …
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This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …
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complementarities between technologies, skills and policies, and thereby tap deeper into the productivity potential offered by digital … artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate … productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over the past decades. Estonia is no exception, though it is well placed …
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higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines … skills and use them effectively in the workplace. Special attention needs to be devoted to supporting disadvantaged students … and adults in developing critical skills and reducing the skills imbalances in the labour market, which can contribute to …
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been uneven across industries and the impact on productivity growth in most firms has been modest so far. …
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