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As the pace of digitalization and automation accelerates globally, and more disruptive innovations in machine learning, artificial intelligence and robotics are expected, new data sources and measurement tools are needed to complement existing valuable statistics and administrative data. This is...
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the way they intervene in explaining the labour productivity change in the period 1995-00. One of the reasons why France … share.In France, the contribution of ICT to the hourly labour productivity growth accelerated quite strongly over 1995 …-00 relative to the previous period. This acceleration was indeed accompanied by an acceleration in the total factor productivity …
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demand for skilled labor: technological change in firm‐specific productivity and technological change in labor productivity …. We find that technological change in labor productivity, in the form of higher returns to skill in production, is the … main driver of the increase in between‐ and within‐group inequality. Technological change in firm productivity, in the form …
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Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …
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Investigating the robustness of the skill-biased technical change hypothesis, this analysis incorporates two novel features. First, effective labor is modeled as the product of a quantity measure - number of employees with a given level of education - and a quality index, depending on, i.a.,...
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Transition has involved major job destruction and creation. This paper examines the skill content of these changes using a detailed three country firm survey. It shows that transition has exerted a strong bias against unskilled labour who have lost employment disproportionately. Moreover, job...
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higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …
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We study the impact of techies-engineers and other technically trained workers-on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …
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Fachkräftemangel ist in Deutschland zu einem wichtigen wirtschaftspolitischen Thema geworden. Dabei ist nicht immer klar, ob die Sorge sich auf die aktuelle Situation bezieht oder eine in Zukunft auftretende Knappheit befürchtet wird. Hauptanliegen dieses Beitrags ist es, zu prüfen, ob in...
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