We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …

requiring multiple periods of work and stochastic productivity shocks. I find that increasing ability or reducing fatigue does …

In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workers may be assortative, meaning … that the most productive workers and firms team up. We investigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer …-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

Changes in labor productivity have been a source of puzzlement and paradoxical results for economists. We suggest that … percent of all the variations in labor productivity. Also, our estimation method and our results suggest that conventional …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

affected by policy. The second is to find data sufficiently robust for modeling purposes. The third, linked to the data problem … linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity … the integration of economic data and policy measures to define service sector experiments. Priorities for future research …

to quantify the extent to which factor accumulation induces structural change and productivity growth in industrializing … many countries. We conclude that the productivity gains through labour re-allocation are potentially a significant …

This paper explores the possibility that unregulated FDI flows are causally implicated in the decline in labor … productivity growth in semi-industrialized economies. These effects are hypothesized to operate through the negative impact of firm … raise productivity in defense of profits, contributing to a low wage-low productivity trap. This paper presents empirical …

or sector, it is their productivity advantage on the local firm to determine the positive effect on domestic productivity … significant and robust Veblen-Gerschenkrion effect. The initial total factor productivity advantage of MNEs on local firm acts as … a stimulus for productivity growth of local firms in the same region. …

below trend - and total factor productivity (TFP), using a panel of 71 developed and developing countries during the period …