This paper studies how the Covid-19 pandemic and the extensive job retention support that accompanied it affected productivity in Europe. The focus is on the reallocation channel and productivity-enhancing reallocation of jobs, following Foster et al., 2016. An extensive micro-distributed...

The COVID-19 crisis may have widely and permanently altered the labor market through the demand for skills. Crises tend to accelerate technological change. Previous recent crises were characterized by an acceleration of automation, which generally led to a decrease in middle-income jobs with...

With about 1/5th of all jobs changing each year, labor mobility is a potentially significant source for idea exchange in the economy. In this paper, we analyze the effect of labor mobility and innovation on productivity growth in the economy. First, by leveraging administrative data for Sweden,...

Extant literature documents a relationship between human resource management (HRM) practices and performance, but the mechanisms underlying this relationship are still not well understood. We develop a theoretical framework of the HRM-performance relationship fusing an employment systems...

This paper shows that the local availability of universities acted as a catalyst in the catch-up of women in higher education that has been documented for developed countries in the latter half of the 20th century. It uses the foundation of new universities in the 1960s and 1970s in West German...

Purpose: In the current dynamic and intensely competitive global business landscape, the retention of highly skilled and specialized talent has emerged as a critical challenge. Employee retention is a strategic differentiator for organizational success, given the substantial expenses related to...