profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching frictions are no more severe than in the US, and recruiting technology is …

We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …

firms differ in their productivities. Wages are dispersed because of search frictions and workers' productivity … worker productivity differentials, frictional wage dispersion and workers' sorting dynamics. I calibrate the model using a … important as workers' productivity differentials. Differences in firms' productivities are also an important source of wage …

productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile. …

total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …

The process of matching between firms and workers is an important mechanism in determining the distribution of wages …. In a labor market characterised by large dispersion of workers' productivity and worker-firm complementarity, high … association of firm-worker matches known as positive assortative matching (PAM). Immigration in a local labor market, by …

The social and the private returns to education differ when education can increase productivity, and also be used to … signal productivity. We show how instrumental variables can be used to separately identify and estimate the social and … the life-cycle, is 7.2%. Thus, 70% of the private returns to education can be attributed to education raising productivity …