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The COVID-19 crisis has hit Italy severely: by mid-2020, GDP had returned to the level observed in 1993. This is the result not only of its sharp collapse in the first half of 2020, but also of its weak growth since the 1990s. Addressing the problems that have restrained the economy for 30 years...
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Relying on a unique integrated database, this work explores the relationship between labour productivity, on one side … 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 …
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This paper analyzes how the qualitative change in human labor occurs in mutual dependence with the advancement of the epistemic base of technology. Historically, a recurrent pattern can be identified: humans learned to successively transfer labor qualities to machines. The subsequent release of...
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– labour, capital and total factor productivity – is discussed, focusing on the case of the Belgian economy while comparing the … productivity is proposed in chapter 2. Belgium’s advantages and disadvantages are assessed, not only in comparison with the EU-15 … productivity on the two continents. The improving performance in the United States in this respect contrasts with the deceleration …
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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 …
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productivity depends on their age through the build-up of labour market experience and the depreciation of human capital. We make … wisdom following an increase in longevity, depending on the corresponding change in the age-productivity profile. …
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This study examines the effect of foreign direct investment (FDI) on local firms' productivity via human capital …' productivity, particularly firms with higher growth in hiring skilled foreign employees. This human capital spillover from FDI is …
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promoting training and the extent to which the productivity effects of training are shared with employees. …
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total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …
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