productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …

Sectoral shifts, such as shrinkage of low labour productivity and the low-wage construction sector, can lead to … apparent increased aggregate average labour productivity and average wages, especially when capital intensity differs across … sectors. For 11 main sectors and 13 manufacturing sub-sectors, we quantify the compositional effects on productivity, wages …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 … productivity. A one percentage point increase in training is associated with an increase in value added per hour of about 0.6% and …

' intensive margins. Short-run changes in work intensity and the longer-term goal of restoring full potential productivity …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …

, wage and productivity in the Belgian private sector. More precisely, we examine how changes in the proportions of young (16 …-29 years), middle-aged (30-49 years) and older (more than 49 years) workers affect the productivity of firms and test for the … presence of productivity-wage gaps. Results (robust to various potential econometric issues, including unobserved firm …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …