as part-time status and gender on both productivity and wages in English firms. We also investigate how productivity … returns follows from part-timers, who tend to work for firms that pay too low wages for the observed productivity differences …. Second, we study the effect of local skills on productivity controlling for skills at the firm. We find a positive and robust …

capital investment by crucially investigating whether there is a link between tenure and wages - this has come to be an … reasonably strong link between wages and tenure, allowing us to infer that a value can be ascribed to the continuation of …

broader range of skills. Technological progress leads to an increase of all wages and results in downsizing. Quantifying … differ in their skill composition. Organizations with higher Total Factor Productivity (TFP) are larger and hire from a … productivity using our model shows that a CES production function generates unbiased estimates of TFP but biased estimates of …

In this chapter, we analyze immigration and its effect on urban and regional economies focusing on productivity and … regions, relative to natives. Immigrants are different from natives in several economically relevant skills. Their impact on … the local economy depends on these skills. We emphasize that to evaluate correctly such impact, we also need to understand …

Wages for black and white workers are substantially lower in occupations with a high density of black employees … equations, the magnitude of the correlation falls sharply after controlling for occupational skills. Longitudinal estimates … support a "quality sorting" explanation, with racial density serving as an index of unmeasured skills. Although past …