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Distance to Which Frontier? Evidence on Productivity Convergence from International Firm-level Data

Bartelsman, Eric J; Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Ralf - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

An extensive literature on the convergence of productivity between countries examines whether productivity is pulled towards the global frontier country, perhaps due to learning and knowledge spillovers. More recently, studies within countries use the wide dispersion of productivity across firms...

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Skills, human capital and the plant productivity gap: UK evidence from matched plant, worker and workforce data

Haskel, Jonathan; Hawkes, Denise; Pereira, Sonia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Using two matched plant level skills and productivity datasets for UK manufacturing we document that (i) more productive firms hire more skilled workers: in 2000, plants at the top decile of the TFP distribution (controlling for their four-digit industry) hired workers with, on average, around...

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Skill Shortages, Productivity Growth and Wage Inflation in UK Manufacturing

Haskel, Jonathan; Martin, Christopher - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1993

. Finally labour shortages might increase nominal wage growth by putting workers in a stronger bargaining position. Both our … data sets suggest that skill shortages raised wage growth over the period by about 1% per annum (average wage growth was 7%). …

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A Bargaining Model of Farrell Inefficiency

Haskel, Jonathan; Sanchis, Amparo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1998

An enormous number of empirical papers have estimated technical efficiency, the distance of firms inside a frontier, following the model of Farrell (1957). We propose a theory that explains the distance these empirical papers seek to measure. The theory is based on the idea that workers can...

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Returns to Education: Evidence from UK Twins

Bonjour, Dorothe; Cherkas, Lynn; Haskel, Jonathan; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

We use a new sample of UK female identical twins to estimate private economic returns to education. We report findings in three areas. First, we use identical twins, to control for family effects and genetic ability bias, and the education reported by the other twin to control for schooling...

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The Decline in Unskilled Employment in UK Manufacturing

Haskel, Jonathan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1996

Almost all studies of skilled/unskilled employment over the 1980s use data on manuals and non-manuals to measure skill …. This paper constructs data on skilled/unskilled employment using occupational data from the UK New Earnings Survey Panel …, subcontracting etc. The major findings are: (a) the ratio of skilled to unskilled employment rose by 4.4%; (b) the averaging effect …

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