important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …

STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … effect goes beyond the employment of R&D workers, extending to ICT and other techies. In non-manufacturing firms, the impact …

managers' skills, technology adaptation, process innovation, and product innovation are positively and significantly related to … managerial skills and technology adaptation on firm performance and productivity through the mediation channel of process … adaptation are positively and significantly related to process and product innovation. Indirect and total effects show that …

Over the last decades, productivity in the tradable sector rose substantially, while in the non-tradable sector, output … duality in higher education as well as heterogeneous ability of individuals can explain the differences in labor productivity … can explain that despite an increase in human capital in both sectors, there is still a gap in productivity. In other …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines … 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 …

, the overall skills upgrading is negatively associated with productivity growth, suggesting a downward sloping return to …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 …

-related skills show higher productivity. Third, the ability to match the skill need via new hiring is always positively correlated …Relying on a unique integrated database, this work explores the relationship between labour productivity, on one side …; intensity and characteristics of companies' skills need and degree of skill mismatch, on the other. The analysis focuses on a …

promoting training and the extent to which the productivity effects of training are shared with employees. …

the 40-60 percentile of the productivity distribution. The composition of skills, especially the share of high skills … workforce even at the frontier. High skills show positive but decreasing productivity returns. Moreover, the skill mix of top … productivity as well. We discuss public policies that can facilitate the catch-up of firms below the frontier through skills and …

reflects differences in individual skills and other non-skill shocks. We consider heterogeneity in both initial skills and … within generations to identify and estimate the intergenerational correlation structure for initial skills and skill growth … elasticities (IGEs) for earnings in Canada (less than 0.2, even when based on 5-year and 9-year average earnings); however, skill …