engineers proportion (SEP) of employment, and productivity and labor earnings. We show that: (1) most scientists and engineers …&D); (2) productivity is higher in manufacturing establishments with higher SEP, and increases with increases in SEP; (3 … important pathway for increasing productivity and earnings, separate and distinct from the work of scientists and engineers who …

Using panel data from 23 OECD countries, I document that wages grow more over the life-cycle in countries where job … skills. Lower labor market fluidity reduces life-cycle wage growth by 20 percent and aggregate labor productivity by nine …

This paper presents a productivity argument for investing in disadvantaged young children. For such investment, there …

estimates of the contribution of labor, capital, education, and total factor productivity for the three sectors of agriculture …'s aggregate productivity growth. In contrast, 45 percent of the growth in India in the second sub-period came in services …. Reallocation of workers from agriculture to industry and services has contributed 1.2 percentage points to productivity growth in …

overall productivity level of the economy. A comprehensive income tax, applying to both labour income and capital income … productivity, the adverse effect of income taxation on human capital investments is significantly magnified …

firm survey from the 1840s, we shed light on the mechanism: upper-tail knowledge raised productivity in innovative …

productivity in several thousand establishments located in these regions. To organize the discussion, we present a new model of …