This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

the impact of training on productivity decrease dramatically with age, suggesting that incentives for firms to invest in …

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

fee-for-service basis. Since wage rates are exogenous, earning differentials are driven by differences in productivity. We …-specific characteristics (particularly earnings differentials) on physician location decisions. We find, among other things, that high-productivity … physicians (based on unobservables) are more likely to migrate to provinces where the productivity premium is greater, while low-productivity …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and …