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As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
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We quantify firm heterogeneity in skill returns and present direct evidence of worker–firm complementarities. Within a model of firms' demand for cognitive and noncognitive attributes we show that identification depends on the availability of skill measures. Linking administrative data to test...
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Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …
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Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
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We investigate the evolution of wage levels, wage inequality, and wage determinants among urban residents in China using China Household Income Project data from 1988, 1995, 2002, 2007, and 2013. Average wage grew impressively between each pair of years. Wage inequality had long been on the...
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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 …
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for faster productivity growth, but also a potential disruption to a number of economic sectors and to job markets …
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higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …
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We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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Fachkräftemangel ist in Deutschland zu einem wichtigen wirtschaftspolitischen Thema geworden. Dabei ist nicht immer klar, ob die Sorge sich auf die aktuelle Situation bezieht oder eine in Zukunft auftretende Knappheit befürchtet wird. Hauptanliegen dieses Beitrags ist es, zu prüfen, ob in...
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