studies analyzing the relative capital-skill complementarity hypothesis formulated by GRILICHES (1969). According to this … hypothesis, the degree of substitutability between skilled labor and capital is lower than that for unskilled labor and capital …

balanced panel of 73 developed and developing countries to examine the capital-skill complementarity hypothesis. The exercise … shows some support for capital-skill complementarity, but the strength of the evidence depends upon the definition of …. -- Capital-skill complementarity ; elasticity of substitution ; nonparametric kernel ; stochastic dominance …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … estimate it using panel data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital … (both found to be larger than for tangible non-managerial capital). Our model also predicts (i) a positive effect of …

productivity. In particular, we find that doubling agricultural credits generates around 4-5 percent increase in agricultural … productivity. We use two different agricultural production measures: (i) the agricultural component of GDP and (ii) agricultural … labor productivity. Employing a combination of panel-data and instrumental- variable methods, we show that agricultural …

We study the importance of linguistic diversity in the workplace for workplace productivity. While cultural diversity … might improve productivity through new ideas and innovation, linguistic diversity might increase communication costs and … thereby reduce productivity. We apply a new measure of languages' linguistic proximity to Norwegian linked employer …

We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international trade integration is associated with higher labour shares …

High temperatures can have a negative effect on work-related activities. Labor productivity may go down because mental …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between productivity and size of the export market for Germany, a leading … actor on the world market for manufactured goods. It documents that firms that export to countries inside the euro-zone are …

differences in total factor productivity and, in turn, as possible sources of economic growth. This paper presents the results of … a causality study between business visits and multifactor productivity using a unique database that covers 30 sectors … sectors from business visits to productivity. Business visits emerge as a fundamental channel for the spread of knowledge. …