, it shows that the comparative advantage of females in skill is reflected in their greater investment in education and in …

demographics and the productivity of those who will still be active during the up-coming period of demographic ageing. As … productivity is difficult to investigate at a micro level, the paper builds on a large macro-data panel covering developed as well … output per worker as well as on total factor productivity (TFP). The results confirm earlier findings by Feyrer (2007 …

productivity growth. …

education characteristic of the pre-reform era has given rise to substantial inequality in access to higher levels of education …. China's growth will be fostered by expanding access to all levels of education, reducing impediments to labor mobility, and …

accelerated. We find that human capital positively affects output per worker and productivity growth. In particular, in terms of …

two separate margins of primary/secondary and tertiary education. Interestingly, the latter type of schooling proves to be …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …

The human capital of a nation is highly correlated to its productivity. Thus, differences in human capital may be seen … as one factor determining the productivity gap between East and West Germany. However, a disadvantage of East Germany … have been acquired through formal education, East Germany has a high level of human capital in comparison to West Germany …

augmented version of the model, we show that a modern sector, characterized by positive levels of investment in education, may …

the 1980s. This strong increase was driven by an increase in the share of those with tertiary education and workers in … 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. …