the Covid-19 pandemic on firms' investment in workforce training and transitions in and out of training. We find that … element for firms and their workforce to adjust to the post-pandemic environment, asymmetries in training investment could …European firms have increasingly invested in training of employees but differences across countries and types of firms …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …This empirical paper documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus on age …

early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures of cognitive and socio-emotional skills and … a latent factor structure to estimate flexible skills production functions between the ages of 8 and 22. We focus …-emotional skills can be separated into two distinct domains - social skills and task effectiveness skills- which develop differently …

This empirical research note documents the relationship between composition of a firm's workforce (with a special focus … development (R&D)) for a large representative sample of enterprises from manufacturing industries in Germany using unique newly … available data. We find that firms with a higher share of older workers have significantly lower proportions of R&D outlays in …

investment in job training than larger firms. Therefore, our findings call for caution when designing pro-SME policies fostering …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of … adjustment was almost entirely due to changing skill composition within continuing firms …

little research linking better education to state incomes. In a complement to international studies of income differences, we … develop detailed measures of state human capital based on school attainment from census micro data and on cognitive skills … attainment and cognitive skills. Similar results emerge from growth accounting analyses …

We extend the Lucas' 1988 model introducing two classes of agents with heterogeneous skills, discount factors and …

returns to education increased substantially for Canadian men, contrary to conclusions reached previously. Most of this rise … took place in the early 1980s and since 1995. Returns to education also rose, albeit more modestly, for Canadian women …