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 computes sectoral contributions to real labour productivity growth in Malta during the two decades since … 2000. The aim is to give an account of the sectoral developments affecting Malta's productivity growth in the twenty years … technique developed by Tang and Wang (2004), which allows for the decomposition of sectoral productivity growth into efficiency …

. 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. …

The proportion of multiple jobholders (moonlighters) is negatively correlated with productivity (wages) in cross … seemingly contradictory facts. An income effect explains the negative correlation with productivity while a comparative advantage … data. There are three exogenous driving forces: productivity, number of children and the proportion of skilled workers. The …

these facts and quantify their aggregate effects on productivity and income per capita. In our model, men and women are … due to misallocation of resources and the resulting fall in aggregate productivity. This loss is 1.3 times larger than the …

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