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technological advancements on overall employment, skills and wages. After a critical review of the extant literature and the …
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-related skills show higher productivity. Third, the ability to match the skill need via new hiring is always positively correlated …Relying on a unique integrated database, this work explores the relationship between labour productivity, on one side …; intensity and characteristics of companies' skills need and degree of skill mismatch, on the other. The analysis focuses on a …
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determination processes. The low elasticities of wages to productivity are plausibly the consequence of the massive flow of migrant …This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the … long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity …
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Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … between labour productivity and wages in the Argentine manufacturing sector? Does it differ across techno-productive classes … from 2010 to 2016, we perform quantile regression estimates to evaluate the link between productivity and wages across the …
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The paper explores the determinants of productivity gap within the European Union in four industrial manufacturing … Development" (R&D) intensity. Our analysis reveals that some of the most important factors determining productivity gap across the … of technology for closing the productivity gap, this is not the case with the interaction between these two variables …
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/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …
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What has been the dynamics of productivity in the Italian business firms in the aftermath of the crisis? And what has … document what we call a neo-dualist tendency with a leader-laggard dynamics entailing a widening support of the productivity … relationship appears, either between initial training intensities and subsequent productivity changes, nor between changes in both …
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manufacturing industries of France, Germany, UK and USA. We first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth … of within-firm productivity changes and between-firms reallocation of shares. The evidence corroborates that within … extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels in deviation from industry average and by the over time …
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This paper studies the causal relations between regional employment growth in Knowledge-Intensive Business Services (KIBS) and overall regional employment growth using German labour-market data for the period 1999-2012. Adopting a recently developed technique, we are able to estimate a...
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