area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

quality has implications for labour productivity. Almost half of labour productivity growth of 1.4% per annum since 1988 can … be attributed to the rise in labour quality. Labour productivity measured as output per quality-adjusted working hour …

Analyzing a novel dataset we find significantly positive effects of basic, and applied and experimental knowledge … stocks on domestic output and productivity for a panel of 10 OECD countries. This letter updates the work of, among others …

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More … has, to our knowledge, never been explored on an empirical basis. Using detailed LEED for Belgium, we find a hump …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …

nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth. …

This paper assess determinants of productivity gaps between firms in the European transition countries and regions and … the role of capital deepening in productivity catch-up, as well as the case that the gaps in labour productivity are most …

market productivity. The key constituents of human capital, identified in the literature, are jointly examined in a close …-to-reality-model. The main advantage of our model of productivity is that, in addition to accounting for the filigree composition of human … migrating and local human capital, their interaction and joint impact on local productivity, and (2) to cross-check for the …

Understanding productivity performance is important to informing policy advice on how to improve productivity and … therefore New Zealand's overall economic performance. Given data limitations inherent in international productivity comparisons … evidence on the performance of the New Zealand economy. Previous international productivity comparisons involving New Zealand …