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Business visits, knowledge diffusion and productivity
Piva, Mariacristina; Tani, Massimiliano; Vivarelli, Marco - 2016
The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business visits sourced from the U.S. National...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595161
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Information technology and the knowledge elites
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
occupation it may harm some workers while benefitting others; and it may either reduce or increase the proportion of knowledge … workers in employment. In my model, knowledge (in a broad sense) is an input into the production function of human capital …-quality one. People differ in their exogenous ability and ability is complementary with the quality of the knowledge input in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011401091
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The impact of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement : evidence from within-teacher within-student variation
Metzler, Johannes; Woessmann, Ludger - 2010
account for this. We estimate the causal effect of teacher subject knowledge on student achievement using within … knowledge ; student achievement ; Peru …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003975622
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R&D and productivity : testing sectoral peculiarities using micro data
Potters, Lesley (contributor);  … - 2008
findings can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm … ; knowledge stock ; panel data ; perpetual inventory method …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003656916
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The economics of diversity: innovation, productivity, and the labour market
Ozgen, Ceren - 2021
The empirical evidence on the economic impacts of diversity is mixed. Many studies in the literature present context dependent and data driven results which are challenging to reconcile with each other. This paper offers a systematic synthesis of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012517843
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Skill complementarity in production technology : ew empirical evidence and implications
Stoyanov, Andrey; Zubanov, Nick - 2019
Matched worker-firm data from Danish manufacturing reveal that 1) industries differ in within-firm worker skill dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher average skill dispersion. We argue that these patterns...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012024633
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Training, soft skills and productivity : evidence from a field experiment
Prada, María F.; Rucci, Graciana; Urzua, Sergio - 2019
This paper examines a training intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among employees of a large Latin American retailer. The identification exploits an experimental design in the context of a difference-in-difference strategy. Using longitudinal information obtained...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012027598
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Firm productivity growth and skill
Maré, Dave C.; Hyslop, Dean Robert; Fabling, Richard - 2015
This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of labour in New Zealand, over the period 2001-12, using longitudinal data from Statistics New Zealand's Longitudinal Business Database (LBD) and Integrated Data Infrastructure...
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011283193
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Moving from a poor economy to a rich one : the contradictory roles of technology and job tasks
Yashiv, Eran - 2020
The phenomenon of workers moving from a poor to a rich economy is high on the political agenda. When a worker moves to a richer economy, what is gained by the move? The empirical challenge in giving an answer stems from the difficulty to disentangle income differences from many other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012201391