. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly …, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …

positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of …We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital …, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the …

-neutral in growth accounting for the Middle East and North African (MENA) countries? Accordingly, this study contributes to the …. The study finds evidence that economic growth stems from capital accumulation rather than total factor productivity for … the MENA countries, except Israel and Saudi Arabia. The authors concluded that assuming the nature of technological …

The disparities in cross-country labor productivity are greater in agriculture than in other industries. I propose that … the misallocation of female talent across sectors distorts productivity. I formalize the theory by using a general … productivity increases by 20.6 percent and GDP per capita increases by 6.0 percent, primarily in low-income countries …

This paper quantitatively examines the effects of aging on labor productivity using individual worker data in Korea. We … find that attainment of information and communications technology (ICT) skills and participation in job-related training … can help older workers stay productive. The estimation results present that ICT skills attainment has a positive effect on …

that synergies among skilled (technical) labor, computers, and machinery capital have productivity- and skilled wage …-enhancing effects that could contribute to productivity convergence of developing toward developed countries, even with their differing …

highlights the interplay between productivity, talents utilization and entrepreneurship incentives. The paper has two main … differences in productivity and contributes to the explanation of large observed international differences in per capita income …

examines implications of these shortcomings for Vietnam. These are low productivity, diminishing GDP growth, middle income trap … structural reforms to change the growth model from factor-based to productivity-based, raising technology level, enhancing human …