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 …

market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close …-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of productivity is that, in addition to accounting for the filigree composition of human … groups of migrating and local human capital, their interaction and joint impact on local productivity, and (2) to cross …

endogenously determined within the model. By considering joint investment in health capital and in skill capital, the model … strongly multiplicative in skill and health, so that investment in skill capital raises the return to investment in health …

and empirical literature analyses the impact of technological progress with respect to changes in regional productivity …