This paper extends earlier OECD work exploring the link between skills mismatch, productivity and policies to include … OECD average of 7%. The results suggest that improving the allocation of skills to OECD best practice could be associated … with an increase in productivity of around 7% in New Zealand. …

higher productivity, which in turn would be boosted by more investment in capital. In particular, investment in knowledge …

from agriculture. Many rural people in the developing world are poor, and conversely, most of the world's poor people … inhabit rural areas. Agriculture also accounts for a significant fraction of the economic activity in the developing world … that changes affecting agriculture have large aggregate effects. Thus, it seems reasonable that agricultural productivity …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

promoting training and the extent to which the productivity effects of training are shared with employees. …