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Employment protection, workforce mix and firm performance
Ardito, Chiara; Berton, Fabio; Pacelli, Lia; Passerini, … - 2021
We measure the impact of employment protection reduction in an uncertain framework on firms' hires and performance, exploiting the Italian 2015 Jobs Act. Results indicate that firms (1) stabilize workforce mainly through contract transformations of low-tenure and low-human-capital incumbent...
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Small firms, human capital, and productivity in Asia
Vandenberg, Paul; Trinh, Long Q. - 2016
productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011522028
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Productivity gap between tradable and non-tradable industries and duality in higher education
Brezis, Elise S.; Brand, Gilad - 2017
Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output per worker has remained the same, despite a similar increase in human capital in both sectors. This paper emphasizes that duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous...
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Productivity, structural change, and skills dynamics : evidence from a half-century analysis
Asik, Gunes; Karakoc, Ulas; Marouani, Mohamed Ali; … - 2020
, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …
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Reducing skills imbalances to foster productivity growth of Malaysia
Espinoza, Ricardo; Vandeweyer, Marieke - 2019
skills and use them effectively in the workplace. Special attention needs to be devoted to supporting disadvantaged students … and adults in developing critical skills and reducing the skills imbalances in the labour market, which can contribute to … higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012203203
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Opening the black box : task and skill mix and productivity dispersion
Blackwood, G. Jacob; Cunningham, Cindy; Dey, Matthew S.; … - 2022
emphasizes the task content of production. Our ultimate objective is to open this black box of tasks and skills at the … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013412738
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Skilled immigrants' contribution to productive efficiency
Nahm, Daehoon; Tani, Massimiliano - 2014
This paper studies whether skilled migrants contribute to the host country's "productive efficiency" (Farrell, 1957) using input-output and immigration sectoral data for seven industries in twelve countries during the period 1999-2001. We find that skilled migrants contribute positively to a...
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The economic implications of training for firm performance
Martins, Pedro S. - 2022
This paper surveys the emerging economics literature on the relationship between employee training and firm performance. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of training can be recouped in short periods of time. These...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012815729
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Sectoral cognitive skills, R&D, and productivity : a cross-country cross-sector analysis
Sasso, Simone; Ritzen, Jozef M. M. - 2016
We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital … recent literature has relied on school attainment rather than on skills. By making use of data on adult cognitive skills from … capital defined as the average cognitive skills in the workforce of each country-sector combination. Our results show a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011595984
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Human capital persistence and development
Rocha, Rudi; Ferraz, Claudio; Soares, Rodrigo Reis - 2015
This paper examines the role of human capital persistence in explaining long-term development. We exploit variation induced by a state-sponsored settlement policy that attracted a pool of immigrants with higher levels of schooling to particular regions of Brazil in the late 19th and early 20th...
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