(or negative) effects of schooling on productivity that have been recently reported (i) in the micro literature on … the macro literature on education and growth. The fraction of the population more efficient at producing skills in the …

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 …

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 …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

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 …

by rapid growth, or are they still struggling with employment overhang? What are the occupations and skills in which …

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 …