impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the … data, 1982-1997, with observed productivity changes much more likely due to changes in speed limits and the dimensions of …

Intangible knowledge capital (IKC) – technology produced by workers but not embodied in them – can offset the "middle … income trap" as China exhausts the benefits of international technology transfer. IKC is productivity-enhancing among Chinese …

the complexity of pensions systems and degrees of myopia. In this paper, we assess levels of knowledge of pensions using a …

early childhood intervention program that measures knowledge of narrowly defined skills on essentially equivalent subsets of … detailed knowledge measures. We reject the hypothesis of aggregate scale invariance and call into question the uncritical use …

This paper analyzes whether part-time employment is beneficial for firm productivity in the service sector. Using a … productivity, we estimate a production function including heterogeneous employment shares based on work hours. We find that a … larger part-time employment share leads to greater firm productivity. Additional data on the timing of labor demand show that …

, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 …-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers affect the productivity of firms and test for the … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

We evaluate the effects of aging on productivity using piece-rate earnings as a proxy for worker output. Our data … rates. The results indicate that productivity increases with age until age 40 after which it stays roughly constant. Wage … growth is faster than productivity growth for young workers but after age 40 both wages and productivity grow approximately …