Does the successful deployment of digital technologies require complementary investment in skills? We conducted a pilot … technologies (Robotics, AI, Big Data) introduced, firms facing difficulties attracting workers with the right skills are more … likely to run own training programmes. This might suggest that there is a skills gap that may be holding back productivity …

, workforce skills and business linkages in enhancing SME productivity. The paper is structured as follows. First, it presents … SME productivity, on the one hand, and managerial skills, workforce skills and business linkages, on the other, which has …Based on an extensive review of the academic and policy literature, this paper focuses on the role of managerial skills …

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has … financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings …

selfemployment to paid employment decreases and the probability of switching to unemployment is unaffected. -- Self-employment …

An interesting aspect of British research on unions based on the Workplace Industrial/Employment Relations Surveys has … financial performance, labor productivity, employment, quits, absenteeism, industrial relations climate, and plant closings …

considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special … an important message to the EU employment policy debate that currently revolves around the skill mismatch in general and … the unmet demand for ICT skills in particular. …