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productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging … presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor …
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. Most studies find very high returns to training, at least from the perspective of firms, indicating that the costs of … promoting training and the extent to which the productivity effects of training are shared with employees. …
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productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education … that competitiveness is enhanced both by raising the general level of education in the workforce and by encouraging … presented. The key finding is that both preservice education and in-service training are positively correlated with labor …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014125431
' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We … important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …
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Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this … machine learning techniques. The proposed measure is positively and significantly associated with labor earnings over workers …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …
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' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity … suggestive empirical analysis of the relationship between within-industry dispersion in productivity and tasks and skills. We …An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014076389
We focus on human capital measured by education outcomes (skills) and establish the relationship between human capital … capital defined as the average cognitive skills in the workforce of each country-sector combination. Our results show a strong … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of …
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. Several variables are used to measure firms' access to skilled labor, such as their share of employees with occupation …Using matched employer-employee data, we investigate the influence of human capital inputs on firm productivity …-specific education and experience in horse breeding and hippology and access to a local pool of skilled labour. The results show that …
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between management practices and firm productivity, and to examine whether human capital intensity acts as a moderator … variable for this relationship. A comparison of how well different models predict productivity from management practices and … human capital reveals a linear two-way interaction between the education of managers and management practices. We find …
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, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, economic uncertainty is systematically found to accentuate the detrimental effect of under-education on productivity. …
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