The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a … dataset of over 4,000 enterprises and considers both the prior educational attainment of workers and in-service training … presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor …

We investigate the effect of pollution on worker productivity in the service sector by focusing on two call centers in … that higher levels of air pollution decrease worker productivity by reducing the number of calls that workers complete each … that the decreases in productivity are explained by increases in time spent on breaks rather than the duration of phone …

price shocks. Following a migrant inflow, labor costs decline and employment expands. Labor productivity decreases sharply … migration mostly benefits low- productivity firms within locations. As migrants select into high-productivity destinations …, migration however strongly contributes to the equalization of factor productivity across locations. …

The paper presents an alternative approach to explain why regional productivity is different across regions by … creative class can promote regional productivity. Our analysis confirms the importance of spatial agglomeration of the creative … class in stimulating regional productivity. The results also imply that regional productivity is greater in markets with …

This empirical analysis explores the impact of industrial robots on labour productivity using panel data of 17 Chinese … productivity; a series of robustness tests validate this outcome. However, the impact of industrial robots on labour productivity … effect on labour productivity was more significant. Our findings indicate the possibility of diminishing marginal effect of …

inventors. We hypothesize that mobility affects: (1) the productivity of prolific inventors and, (2) the value of their …

Human capital is indispensable for firms in developing countries to adopt new technologies and improve productivity … experience a larger gain in total factor productivity post-2003 relative to prior years; they also show larger increases in … occupations, and total value-added. The extra productivity gains however are much weaker for domestic private firms than foreign …