In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning …-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we … relate this to the skill distribution of workers in the firm. We find that there is positive assortative matching, in …

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 …

show that in Italy, like in the US, firms located in geographical areas with a higher stock of human capital pay higher …

Italy has an immobile social structure. At the heart of this immobility is the educational system, with its high direct …

MENA countries. To answer the question: whether either human capital or openness can be shown to cause productivity, we use … show a significant impact of openness on productivity growth. We find also an effect, significant at the ten per cent level …, of the level of human capital on the level of income but no effect on underlying productivity growth. Our preferred …

Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One …

This paper uses the approach in the under/over education literature to analyze the extent of matching of educational …

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …

In new new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …

In "new" new international trade theory, whether firms export or not are determined by their productivity. These models … assume that firms enter a market to find their productivity levels revealed to them as in a lottery. In this paper we propose … with a real option value. We show that endogenizing the export decision is consistent with patterns of productivity and …