The authors follow the Hellerstein, Neumark, and Troske (1999) framework to estimate marginal productivity … differentials and compare them with estimated relative wages. The analysis provides evidence on productivity and nonproductivity … training on wages and productivity differentials. Higher education yields higher productivity. However, highly educated workers …

intensively than rural areas, therefore the labour market return to these skills is higher in cities. Using data from a … correct for measurement errors in skills, and to deal with the endogeneity of agglomeration. Our results are robust to … alternative agglomeration measures and a large set of controls, however, returns to skills vary considerably across worker groups …

We estimate the impact of workforce diversity on productivity, wages and productivity-wage gaps (i.e. profits) using … econometric issues, show that educational (age) diversity is beneficial (harmful) for firm productivity and wages. The … industries. Overall, findings do not point to sizeable productivity-wage gaps except for age diversity. …

This paper investigates the effect of corporate management quality, measured complexly, on the productivity and wages … terms of corporate management quality, especially among SMEs, which results in significantly lower levels of productivity …

A large body of research has established a positive connection between an industry's productivity and the magnitude of … explained by a micro-level underpinning commonly associated with productivity: establishment scale. Looking at data on two …

productivity is higher in larger regions due to different kinds of economies of agglomeration. Also, larger regions are able to … productivity differs between regions. Using a decomposition method, akin to shift-share, we are able to separate regional wage … disparities into an industrial composition component and productivity component. According to theory it is expected that …

We estimate how much of the gains from productivity spillovers through worker mobility is retained by the hiring firms …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … indicators such as education and experience) is derived from a question that has been asked consistently over time in the Labour …