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 …

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 …

threshold of productivity. We examine mobility in two dimensions: from firm to firm (inter-firm) and from one technical field to …. In particular we show that: (1) as predicted by evolutionary theory, inventor productivity is a positive determinant of … invention value, (2) inter-firm mobility is a consistently positive determinant of productivity and (3) technological mobility …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

IC matters for firm productivity through the quality of infrastructure, the experience and education of the labor force …

of both wages and productivity are endogenous. We estimate this model using French data. Numerical simulations show that … wage when they are spread over a large range of wages in order to avoid specialization in low productivity jobs. …