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productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …
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productivity in the long run. …
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We design, pilot, and field a new survey of occupational skills in Peru, to investigate human capital differences between poor and rich countries. Though the average skill level is comparable, Peruvian jobs have markedly more uniform skill profiles than jobs in the US. However, matching...
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important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …
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We construct firm-level data set with matched productivity and qualification data by linking the Annual Business … as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …
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show that productivity growth keeps pace with wage growth over the first four years of the career but flattens out … notion that learning-by-doing can be a powerful mechanism for productivity growth. …
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effect of attractiveness within occupations in order to provide more evidence on its productivity-enhancing channel of …
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scales impacts productivity, by exploiting a reform that compelled all schools in England to replace pay scales with school …
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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 …
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The empirical literature on employer learning assumes that employers learn about unobserved ability differences across workers as they spend time in the labor market. This article describes testable implications that arise from this basic hypothesis and how they have been used to quantify the...
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