Does the concept of General Purpose Technologies help explain periods of faster and slower productivity advance in …, Britain, France, Germany and Japan and proceeds to evaluate the hypothesis of a productivity bonus as postulated by many … there was no generalized productivity boost from electrical power diffusion as postulated by many existing GPT models. The …

The author argues that American productivity and living standards, along with those of other countries, will improve …

Competing in the world economy does not automatically boost a nation's productivity and restructure its economy. Such … strategies to increase productivity and improve access by businesses to productive resources.Abstract: Participar en la economía …

We provide first evidence regarding the direct impact of educational mismatch on firm productivity. To do so, we rely … productivity, we find that: i) a higher level of required education exerts a significantly positive influence on firm productivity …, ii) additional years of over-education (both among young and older workers) are beneficial for firm productivity, and iii …

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. …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm’s labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …

products manufacturing industry is one of the industries with the weakest productivity performance in Canada in the post 2000 … policy implications for the productivity performance of this industry. …

In addition to the direct productivity effect, public capital also has an indirect effect on private capital stock and …, we calculate the impact of public capital on regional total factor productivity (TFP) performance by introducing a system …