productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …

In this paper, we explore the impact of workers' tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer … theoretical predictions, we find that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity. The … beneficial for productivity in contexts characterized by a certain degree of routineness and lower job complexity. Along the same …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a "difference …-in-differences" framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …

regulation and labour market rigidity seems particularly substantial. -- Productivity ; growth ; regulations ; market rigidities …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

This paper argues that international migration of high-skilled workers triggers productivity effects at the macro level … capita, total factor productivity, and wages of skilled workers between pairs of source and destination countries. These …. -- international high-skilled migration ; wage effects ; total factor productivity …

unemployment on productivity growth heavily depends on the influence of human capital in the production function. In the … traditional Solow model, unemployment has neither an influence on long-run productivity growth nor on the long-run level of … productivity. However, if human capital matters, unemployment has a long-run effect on the level of productivity. Moreover, if we …

, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …