question with unique data on ICT skills tested in 19 countries. Our two instrumental-variable models exploit technologically … induced variation in broadband Internet availability that gives rise to variation in ICT skills across countries and German … municipalities. We find that a one-standard-deviation increase in ICT skills raises earnings by about 25 percent. Exogenous broadband …

How skills acquired in vocational education and training (VET) affect wages and employment is not clear. We develop and … skills, while firms require and value different combinations of these skills. Assuming that match productivity exhibits … wages. We find that firms value cognitive skills on average almost twice as much as interpersonal and manual skills, and …

This paper assesses sources of productivity spillovers in China's electric and electronic manufacturing industry using … important reliance on technology. In particular, the paper focuses on the role of other firms' productivity as well as … productivity shifters in affecting own firm-level total factor productivity. In addition, this paper examines the possible …

context, we examine ideas production and international knowledge spillovers in a panel of 31 EMEs by accounting for six … diffusion channels and two types (national versus USPTO) of patent filings. Knowledge spillovers to EMEs accruing from (i) the …) those within the regional clusters of EMEs, are modeled. Spillovers from the industrialized world appear robust via …

We determine workforce composition and wages in firms in the presence of productivity spill-overs between co …-workers. In equilibrium, workers' wages depend on the production structure of firms, own group size, and aggregate workforce … positive effect of workforce diversity and a negative effect of own group size on wages, which suggest that workers of …

When searching for productivity spillovers from foreign firms, a firm is typically classified as foreign using a low … spillovers. Adopting this alternate definition of what is foreign turns out to be pivotal for identifying spillovers: while we … find no horizontal productivity effects using the low threshold direct ownership definition, we find positive and …