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 nonlinear propagation of sectoral productivity shocks in a general equilibrium framework with … in the aggregate propagation of sectoral productivity shocks with variable elasticities than with constant elasticities …. The results of sectoral productivity shocks on cross-country income convergence between 2005 and 2011 are robust across …

productivity (TFP) growth in China. Our primary goal is to test Hicks' induced innovation hypothesis by examining whether technical …

We investigate the impact of rising temperatures on firm productivity using longitudinal firm-level balance-sheet data … productivity declines markedly as temperatures rise, while capital productivity remains unaffected – indicating that TFP is … experience significant productivity declines. Geographically, the negative impact is most pronounced in temperate and …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. -- Productivity ; retail ; regulation …