This study aims at evaluating the actual profile of marginal productivity across the age groups within the workforce …. As age-productivity profile might differ between occupations, we differentiate the workforce simultaneously by skills … dataset for manufacturing, services and trade sectors. Labour productivity is found to be the lowest for the low-skilled older …

This article presents a new decomposition of unit labour costs into compensation per worker and labour productivity … countries and the US show that the evolution of labour productivity components counteracts the deterioration in countries' cost … competitiveness caused by increases in nominal wages. The policy implication is that e fforts aimed at reducing nominal labour costs …

We conduct a case study of the linkages of task organization, human capital accumulation and wages in Morocco, using … by our estimates: task organization influences on-the-job training that affects wages. Beyond sector and gender … textile sector and for well-educated workers. Finally, task organization and on-the-job training are found to affect wages. …

In the present study, we investigate whether workers close to cities are paid higher non-agricultural wages than … impact. Distance always has a negative impact on wages but the effect is more detrimental, the closer the village is to the … urban center. We also find evidence of urban hierarchy effects: workers living close to bigger cities are paid higher wages …

establishments in the 2000s, we first show that family firms pay on average lower wages to their workers. This family/non-family wage … to the differential of productivity between family and non-family firms or to unobserved establishment and individual …

untrained workers. Additional results on the effect of training on wages indicate that training participation in 1998 increases … wages by 7% in 2000, the wage premium remaining flat along the wage distribution. …

Based on the DADS, a very detailed French database on wages, we show that wage inequalities started to increase in … the tremendous increase in top financial wages. …

maintain their productivity (due, for instance, to skill obsolescence) are more frequently laid–off and thereby excluded from …