sector is highly segmented, with a relatively small core of modern high-productivity corporations, and myriad small, less … formal and low-productivity entities. This hampers efficient resource allocation and tends to entrench social inequalities … to be overcome to raise productivity in the informal, low-skill and low-productivity sector, and to facilitate resource …

This paper is one of the first to use employer-employee data on wages and labor productivity to measure discrimination …

educated immigrant and native workers. Native workers' wages have been insulated by differences in skills, adjustments in local …Politicians, the media, and the public express concern that immigrants depress wages by competing with native workers … countries have found no effect on wages, on average, and only modest effects on wage differentials between more and less …

productivity premium is not entirely offset by an increase in wages. Finally, we conclude that the main channels for …In the past decades, intangibles assets have become an important source of productivity and economic growth in … the impact of intangible investments on productivity growth in frontier countries, there is not much evidence for the …

paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …

Should one expect a worker’s productivity, and thus wage, to depend on the productivity of his/her co-workers in the … the case because social interaction among co-workers can lead to productivity spillover through knowledge spillover or … peer pressure. The available empirical evidence suggests that, due to such peer effects, co-worker productivity positively …