Differences in productivity explain much of the growing income gap between Australia and New Zealand. Good policy … responses rely on understanding the sources of these differences. Seventy percent of the aggregate gap in productivity between … structure of the two countries. Our findings support the idea of studying and tackling the root causes of productivity …

As we emerge from a deep and long recession, the debate must shift again to how New Zealand can lift its productivity … either need to boost productivity and lift volumes, or create price premia. This can be done by moving up the value chain and …

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 …