In labor markets with worker and firm heterogeneity, the matching between firms and workersmay be assortative, meaning … that the most productive workers and firms team up. Weinvestigate this with longitudinal population-wide matched employer …

productivity among these sectors. The increasing implementation and imports of ICT technologies, the growing demand for ICT … erhöht hat. Durch die zunehmende Implementierung und die Importe von IKT, den wachsenden Bedarf nach qualifizierten IKT-Humankapital …

Assuming a two-period model with endogenous choices of labour, education, and saving, it is shown to be second …-best efficient not to distort the choice of education... …

idiosyncraticproductivities and update productivity beliefs using information revealed by their productionexperience. The estimator relies on the … industry. Estimation of productivity dynamics and of behavioraldecision rules are separated into recursive stages. Using … plausible estimates with small standard errors. Decision ruleestimates show that productivity beliefs affect investment and exit …

leading to productivity dispersion... …

. Above this critical number of competitors, efficient firms price to drive the high cost firms from the market: productivity … with firms. We show that this realisation leads to the existence of a critical threshold number of competitors in an … industry which depends on fundamentals. In industries with fewer competitors than the critical level, there is productivity …

of the standard Solow productivity residual. Theequivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility while … (industries or firms) to aggregate welfare usingreadily available TFP data. Based on this finding, we compute firm and industry …-KLEMS) and firm-level (Amadeus) data. After adding furtherassumptions about technology and market structure (firms minimize costs …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of theproductivity gap between large and SME firms …Very little is known about the effectiveness of SME policies, and a careful look at thestructure, mechanisms and … and to simulate of the impact on productivity ofvarious policy scenarios.... …

During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor … productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption … and integration into the workforce of highly skilled immigrants from the former Soviet Union... …