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 …

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

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 …