Persistent productivity gains to rural-urban migrants have been documented by a number of researchers. One …

that over time, either firms learn about worker productivity but productivity remains fixed or workers' productivities … importance. We derive a dynamic model of learning and productivity that nests both models and allows them to coexist. We estimate … correlates of productivity, as opposed to the empirical evidence on employer learning which uses one fixed measure. Second, we …

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 …

This paper focuses on the differences in earnings and labor force status of low-skilled prime age men in France, the … called the not-in-labor force rate) among low-skilled men exceeds the percentage of the unemployed, whereas in France the …

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 …

productivity. The empirical evidence on the validity of this assumption is surprisingly thin and subject to various potential … productivity-wage gaps. They find that occupations play distinct roles for remuneration and productivity: while the estimations … indicate a significant upward-sloping occupational wage-profile, the hypothesis of a flat productivity-profile cannot be …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …