The effect of marriage on productivity and wages has been long debated. A difficulty in estimating the effect of … marriage on productivity is the lack of data that contain measures of both marital status and exogenous productivity. We fill … between individual measures of productivity and marriage, yet, wages are up to 15 percent higher for some married players. We …

Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training …-level productivity. We further link these Findings to individual-level performance measures. In particular, we document positive effects … increasing productivity through training programs targeting critical skills. …

innovation activities on rm productivity. Using a rotating panel data sample of Danish rms, we nd that di erent types of … productivity levels than forms that adopt organisational innovation but not process innovation that again demonstrate greater … productivity than rms that do not adopt process innovation but not organisational innovation. Finally, we establish that product …

productivity using an original dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, and applying a two-stage probit least squares estimator. We … find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect … impact on productivity is independent of the type of activity outsourced and is bigger in the case of service outsourcing …

This paper presents evidence of the effects of gender diversity on firm innovation outcomes and their productivity in …. Finally, gender diversity drives firm productivity, even after controlling for the effect of innovation on the production …

. This study uses the World Bank Enterprise Survey (WBES) 2010 and Compete Caribbean's Productivity Technology Innovation … play a relatively small role and may not even matter for innovation and productivity. …