The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

productivity in enterprises operated by young owners. Using the World Bank's recent LSMS-ISA database that covers six countries in … young adults to start enterprises, but to also enable young entrepreneurs to improve productivity in already existing …

This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's 'productive efficiency' (Farrell, 1957 … find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a country's productive efficiency with the exception of the finance …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important …

This paper examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on employment and respiratory health for remote workers (i ….e. those who can work from home) and non-remote workers in the United States. Using a large, nationally-representative, high …-remote workers. This gap is larger than the differential job losses for women, African Americans, Hispanics, or workers without …

Sick workers in many countries receive sick pay during their illness-related absences from the workplace. In several … countries, the social security system insures firms against their workers' sickness absences. However, this insurance may create … blue-collar workers' sickness absences was abolished (firms did not receive a similar refund for their white-collar workers …

. These findings are robust to a series of sensitivity analyses. The results suggest that blue-collar workers "wear out …

employed workers in competitive labor markets. The reason is that employers may not comply with the minimum wage legislation … and instead pay a lower subminimum wage rate. If workers are risk neutral, we prove that working hours and welfare are … invariant to the minimum wage rate. If workers are risk averse and imprudent (which is the empirically likely case), then …

We estimate the causal effect of early retirement on mortality for blue-collar workers. To overcome the problem of … endogenous selection, we exploit an exogenous change in unemployment insurance rules in Austria that allowed workers in eligible … incidence of cardiovascular disorders among eligible workers, suggesting that changes in health-related behavior explain …