higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …

skills rather than idiosyncratic attributes unrelated to productivity? If so, why? And what are the aggregate consequences …

This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include … OECD average of 7%. The results suggest that improving the allocation of skills to OECD best practice could be associated … with an increase in productivity of around 7% in New Zealand. …

higher productivity, which in turn would be boosted by more investment in capital. In particular, investment in knowledge …

from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

productivity gap between firms at the productivity “frontier” (the top 10% within each detailed industry) and medium performers at … the 40-60 percentile of the productivity distribution. The composition of skills, especially the share of high skills …, varies the most along the productivity distribution, but low and medium skilled employees make up a substantial share of the …