The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

Firms that provide on-the-job training do so when it is critical to their productivity -- and when productivity is … and productivity, as well as the presence of positive externalities from on-the-job training, while discussing the … complementary productivity-enhancing activities within the firm. The literature suggests that for most firms, a comprehensive policy …

vocational training or a productive investment grant. The authors identify the relative impact of each complementary package …. Households that received the productive investment grant also had higher average consumption levels. The complementary …

-fertilization of experiences. Total factor productivity comparisons suggest that capital accumulation in China coupled with more …

level adoption of information and communications technology leads to increases in firm productivity and wages, and that the … effects are heterogeneous across firms, being larger for initially high-productivity and high-skill firms. The increase in … wages occurs even after controlling for skill composition, implying that there are productivity and rent-sharing mechanisms …

There is a common perception that low productivity or low growth is due to what can be called an quot …;innovation shortfallquot;, usually identified as a low rate of investment in research and development (Ramp;D) when compared with some high … innovation countries. The usual reaction to this perceived problem is to call for increases in Ramp;D investment rates, usually …

for greater capital accumulation, without being fully reflected in a higher rate of total factor productivity (TFP) growth …

as Japan, Spain, and the United States. Creating a new combined dataset on foreign direct investment (FDI) (covering …

implications that not only constrain and restrain future earnings, but also undermine prospects for improvements in productivity …