been uneven across industries and the impact on productivity growth in most firms has been modest so far. …

productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly … an important message to the EU employment policy debate that currently revolves around the skill mismatch in general and …

firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines … evidence of skills imbalances in Malaysia and assesses Malaysia’s performance in a number of key policy areas that can help …

In many OECD countries, low productivity growth has coincided with rising inequality. Widening wage and productivity … productivity-related premia that firms pay their workers above common market wages. The remaining third can be attributed to …