How worker productivity evolves with tenure and experience is central to economics, shaping, for example, life …-cycle earnings and the losses from involuntary job separation. Yet, worker-level productivity is hard to identify from observational … data. This paper introduces direct measurement of worker productivity in a firm survey designed to separate the role of on …

manufacturing - to study the effects of new IT on product innovation, production process improvements, employee skills and work … technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity …This study presents new empirical evidence on the relationship between investments in new computer-based information …

support agents. Access to the tool increases productivity, as measured by issues resolved per hour, by 14 percent on average …

manufacturing workers are exposed to these technologies. Firms report a variety of motivations for adoption, including automating … labor productivity and lower labor shares. In particular, the use of these technologies is associated with a 11.4% higher … labor productivity, which accounts for 20-30% of the difference in labor productivity between large firms and the median …

where agents strategically acquire information about factor productivity under time and effort constraints. Conditional on … such constraints, agents' allocative skill can be defined as the marginal product of their attention. We test our model in … a field survey where participants act as managers assigning fictional workers with heterogeneous productivity schedules …

to CNC increased capital investment and experienced higher labor productivity. Total employment rose, with gains for …Since the 1970s, computerized machine tools have been replacing semi-skilled manufacturing workers, contributing to … tool types across industries and differential shifts toward CNC technology by tool type over time. Industries more exposed …

An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …

net zero goals are to be met, developing complementary technologies and skills will be a necessary part of the next wave … of low-carbon energy innovation. These include both improvements in physical capital, such as smart grids to aid … integration of intermittent renewables, and human capital, to develop the skills workers need for a low-carbon economy. We …