authors analyze how the supply of skills and legal origin of the country affect the wage setting process. The wage analysis … members, whereas in civil-law countries, only older members enjoy higher wages. The authors also contrast wage premia with … productivity. "--World Bank web site …

total factor productivity growth in Korea, Mexico, and Jordan. Measures of foreign research and development are constructed … the South. The findings show that technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be regional. Jordan benefits mainly …

Employment and skills are at the core of Europe 2020, the European Union's (EU) competitiveness strategy, and are … decisive for high productivity and sustained growth. Romania has overcome significant challenges on its path to EU membership … steps the Romanian government could consider in order to reach the Europe 2020 targets. Skills remain a major challenge. In …

This report presents a framework - Skills Toward Employment and Productivity (STEP), that provides a simple yet … comprehensive way to look at skills development. It brings together research evidence and practical experience from a range of areas …

differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … 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 …

productivity growth. However, this approach is based on strong assumptions about national labor markets. The author shows that when … these assumptions are relaxed, regional adjusted wage growth is a better measure of regional productivity growth than … growth to proxy for productivity growth leads to misleading results. "--World Bank web site …

foreign investors affects the degree of vertical spillovers from foreign direct investment. Investors' country of origin may … matter for spillovers to domestic producers in upstream sectors (supplying intermediate inputs) in two ways. First, the share … EU investors and thus present greater potential for vertical spillovers. The empirical analysis produces evidence in …