Understanding the causal association between skills and productivity is essential for designing effective training … increasing productivity through training programs targeting critical skills. … programs. This paper evaluates an intervention aimed at boosting leadership and communication skills among store managers and …

This paper explores for the first time the impact of a demand-driven training program on labor turnover at both firm …-MDIC allows firms to demand courses which some of their workers apply to. Difference-in-difference estimates find that workers who … workers who participate in Pronatec-MDIC. The effect dissipates in the third year, suggesting that it takes time for firms to …

sharp characterization for the optimal mobility of individual workers and for the aggregate supply of skills across …

: education and work. The objective is to provide a current snapshot of gender inequality across key indicators as well as a … document significant improvements in female labor force participation over the last 20 years, especially among the least …-educated women (those with incomplete secondary education). However, progress has not been equal across all the countries in the …

temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a lower extent than permanent workers, while also having … labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that …

. However, such concern has been largely missing as far as the future workforce is concerned. This paper discusses India … poised to enter the workforce between 2030 and 2050 - those in their infancy today and the following decades. They should … its roots, inter alia, in the country's grossly inadequate, inefficient and inequitable early health and education systems …

Productivity, the efficiency by which firms convert inputs into output is central concept in growth related discussions …. This research is focused on analyzing productivity on a sample of Macedonian firms. The goal is twofold - first, to …), and, second to identify productivity determinants specific for Macedonian firms. Results are in line with the global …

Chilean firms with regard to mastering new technologies. These slow and frequently uncertain gains in productivity could help … process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity … is that the decision to import foreign intermediates improves productivity in manufacturing firms. This matters from a …

Export is an important contributor to growth with numerous direct and indirect macroeconomic benefits. Moreover, firms … doing hypothesis. The analysis is done on a sample of over 1,900 manufacturing firms annually, for the period 2013-2017. In … successful and more productive firms become exporters as a result of their performance i.e. they self-select themselves in the …