considerable unmet demand for skills, which is in the focus of the EU employment promotion policies. This paper studies the special … productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …

relationship appears, either between initial training intensities and subsequent productivity changes, nor between changes in both …What has been the dynamics of productivity in the Italian business firms in the aftermath of the crisis? And what has … been the impact of training efforts upon such dynamics? In this work we address these questions exploring a unique Italian …

find a positive effect on productivity from outsourcing only if firms provide training for the workforce. This indirect …. This can be explained by the different feedback effect of labor productivity on training and by the different type of … productivity using an original dataset of Italian manufacturing firms, and applying a two-stage probit least squares estimator. We …