This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

, education and demographic characteristics affects the productivity of firms in Denmark. Implementing a structural estimation of … firm's value added. Conversely, diversity in ethnicity and demographics induces negative effects on firm productivity …

productivity gap between firms at the productivity “frontier” (the top 10% within each detailed industry) and medium performers at … the 40-60 percentile of the productivity distribution. The composition of skills, especially the share of high skills …, varies the most along the productivity distribution, but low and medium skilled employees make up a substantial share of the …

We examine the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms’ productivity via human capital transfer from … local firms’ productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

probability of robot adoption. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative …

investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a … positive impact of higher salaries on firm productivity, but limited effects of non-monetary job quality indicators … quality indicators had a weak impact on productivity, however, reducing the incentive of employers to invest in job quality …