training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers … appropriate their productivity gains of education through wages. On the other hand, workers with more experience are more …"The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity …

informality. The focus of this report is on exploring options to enhance worker welfare and firm productivity through access to … terms of their contributions to health insurance and pension systems, 74.2 percent of all Colombian labor force was … considered informal in 2008. The informality debate has taken on a new sense of urgency, as Colombia's robust economic growth in …

an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. … creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … size of the "new" private sector, consisting of small firms. This, in turn, is due to the poor investment climate caused by …

an adaptable labor market that supports job creation and growth in productivity. … creation, and suggest policies that will foster job creation and productivity. The study finds that, despite relatively low … size of the "new" private sector, consisting of small firms. This, in turn, is due to the poor investment climate caused by …

policymakers in Armenia. Furthermore, it is important that in the longer term, wage growth does not exceed labor productivity … concern: relatively few persons of working age are employed, and many of those who are employed have low-productivity jobs … growth. Otherwise, competitiveness of the Armenian economy could suffer due to a growth in the unit labor cost, which in turn …

This note provides a medium-term agenda for supporting Mexico's competitiveness by fostering greater innovation … Mexico's innovation policy agenda. While the firm is at the center of innovation, empirical evidence shows that public policy … can generate an external environment more conducive to innovation. The past decade has brought several policy changes and …

market liberalization, and obstacles to growth in the new private sector on reallocation and its productivity in Hungary … reallocation during the transition has contributed significantly to aggregate productivity growth. Privatization has not only … and productivity of job and worker reallocation. Then they investigate the effects of privatization, product and labor …

School health and nutirion programs can contribue to achieving the goals of the Education for All initiative (EFA) by … helping children enroll on time, complete their education, and realize their cognitive potential. Achieving these goals … depends on reaching the children most in need. One strong feature of school health and nutrition programs is that they benefit …