productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact …

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. …

In this study we deal with the direct effects on productivity of the inhouse R&D expenditures of firms. In particular …

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

productivity) is low. Secondly, our estimates of the effects of training on wages are about half the size of the effects on …There is a vast empirical literature of the effects of training on wages that are taken as an indirect measure of … productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …

performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in …, suggest that the negative effects on wages might be explained by a decrease in workers' bargaining power following the …

; occupations ; wages ; productivity … more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have …/value added and decreases in mean firm wages (at pre-existing layers). The reverse holds for removing layers. This result also …

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …