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 …

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 …

This paper analyses for 34 OECD countries the extent to which the calculation of aggregate multi-factor productivity …

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 …

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 …

been uneven across industries and the impact on productivity growth in most firms has been modest so far. …

considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special … productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …

productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … average across countries, changes in the dispersion of average wages between firms explain about half of the changes in …

direct investment, imports of productivity-enhancing technology - are petering out, and are yet to be substituted. We propose … and a strong focus on skills, labour and social inclusion to leave the middle income trap behind for good and to boost …