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(or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on …
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dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …
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We argue that skill-biased technological change not only affects wage gaps between skill groups, but also increases wage inequality within skill groups, across workers in different workplaces. Building on a heterogeneous firm framework with labor market frictions, we show that an industry-wide...
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We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …
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In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …
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This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …
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This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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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...
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productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …
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In order to remain competitive, firms need to keep the quantity and composition of jobs close to the optimal for their given output. Since the beginning of the transition period, Russian industrial firms have been widely reporting that the quantity and composition of hired labor is far from...
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