Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across … sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Yet, this positive trend in productivity should …

Relying on a unique integrated database, this work explores the relationship between labour productivity, on one side … acknowledging the need to update their knowledge base display a higher productivity vis-à-vis other firms. Second, when it comes to … productivity as compared to other firms. On the contrary, companies characterized by a need in managerial, STEM or humanities …

We provide first evidence of the impact of over-education, among natives and immigrants, on firm-level productivity and … higher for natives than for immigrants. However, since the differential in productivity gains associated with over …

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 … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

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 …

promoting training and the extent to which the productivity effects of training are shared with employees. …

productivity. Third, the average productivity differences between SOEs and non-SOEs decrease by about 65% after controlling ….g. SOEs) increases productivity while reduces resource misallocation in developing countries. …