early adulthood for a Peruvian cohort born in 1994. We exploit multiple measures of cognitive and socio-emotional skills and … a latent factor structure to estimate flexible skills production functions between the ages of 8 and 22. We focus …-emotional skills can be separated into two distinct domains - social skills and task effectiveness skills- which develop differently …

acknowledging the need to update their knowledge base display a higher productivity vis-à-vis other firms. Second, when it comes to … productivity as compared to other firms. On the contrary, companies characterized by a need in managerial, STEM or humanities …-related skills show higher productivity. Third, the ability to match the skill need via new hiring is always positively correlated …

This paper provides more insight into the relevance of the assumption of human capital theory that the productivity of … job-related training is driven by the improvement of workers' skills. We analyse the extent to which training and informal … to workers' skill mismatch at job entry. Using data from the 2014 European Skills Survey, we find - as assumed by human …

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 …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … firms' productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 …

financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing … importing firms since 2000. …