An important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

continents and the rest of the world. There is a strong link between a country’s human capital and total factor productivity … productivity, with a striking geographic or regional divide. Human capital tends to be higher in Southern African and North African …