The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that … is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural … account, that: i) labor productivity in most manufacturing sectors is significantly lower; ii) average TFP differs …

The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that … is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural … account, that: i) labor productivity in most manufacturing sectors is significantly lower; ii) average TFP differs …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

Which structural reforms affect labour productivity growth in developing countries? This paper answers this question by … that financial reforms, trade reforms, and product market reforms boost labour productivity growth. By documenting the main … channels, our results reveal that the reforms studied stimulate labour productivity growth by inducing dynamic efficiency …

This paper analyses the impact of intangible capital on firm-level productivity for Germany using panel data from the … significant positive relationship between intangible capital and firm-level productivity with elasticities overall in line with … highly intangiblecapital intensive, and that intangibles have a greater impact on firm-level productivity in services …

novel approach to identify firms' productivity shocks that combines a nonparametric production function estimation method …What is the impact of firms' productivity shocks on workers' labor earnings? To answer this question, we propose a … firms' productivity of 0.08. This implies that a positive shock to firms' productivity of one standard deviation generates …

labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that … temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a lower extent than permanent workers, while also having …

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 examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …