Gender diversity in senior management and firm productivity
This paper investigates the link between gender diversity in senior management and firm-level productivity. For this purpose, it constructs a novel cross-country dataset with information on firms’ senior management group and other firm...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersThe green side of productivity
This paper describes the methodology used for crosswalking occupation-based measures of Green (“environmentally friendly”) and Brown (“polluting”) jobs from the Standard Occupational Classification (SOC) system to the International Standard...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersPro-Productivity institutions at work
In the face of slowing productivity growth, a number of OECD countries have set up pro-productivity institutions to produce objective evidence and data on productivity trends and growth drivers and help inform pro-productivity policies and...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersThe role of telework for productivity during and post-COVID-19
Motivated by the sudden adoption of telework in the wake of the COVID 19 pandemic, the Global Forum on Productivity (GFP) undertook an online survey among managers and workers in 25 countries about their experience and expectations, with a particular...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersWill it stay or will it go? Analysing developments in telework during COVID-19 using online job postings data
The COVID-19 crisis has triggered a major shift towards telework and virtual interactions. This paper uses information on job postings from the online job site Indeed to analyse developments in the adoption of telework across 20 countries. It finds,...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersThe human side of productivity
Relying on linked employer-employee datasets from 10 countries, this paper documents that the skills and the diversity of the workforce and of managers – the human side of businesses – account on average for about one third of the labour productivity...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersProductivity-wage nexus at the firm-level in Portugal
There is a growing international concern about the slowdown in productivity growth, especially as labor productivity enhancements are important drivers of higher general-ised living standards.Using administrative data of firms in Portugal between...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersFinancial distress and the role of management in micro and small-sized firms
In this paper, we focus on the managerial characteristics of micro and small-sized firms. Using linked employer-employee data on the Portuguese economy for the 2010-2018 period, we estimate the impact of management teams’ human capital on the...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersThe return on human (STEM) capital in Belgium
Whilst overall productivity growth is stalling, firms at the frontier are still able to capture the benefits of the newest technologies and business practices. This paper uses linked employer-employee data covering all Belgian firms over a period of...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersProductivity and human capital
This paper investigates whether and how worker composition, ownership and management affect the productivity of firms. To this aim, we use a dataset obtained by integrating the micro-data drawn from Rilevazione su Imprese e Lavoro (RIL), a survey...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersA new approach to skills mismatch
Skills mismatch - the sub-optimal use of an individual's skills in their occupation - can be a source of dissatisfaction for workers and a brake for productivity growth. In our view, a difference in the level of skills within an occupation is not...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersEmployee training and firm performance
As work changes, firm-provided training may become more relevant. However, there is little causal evidence about the effects of training on firms. This paper studies a large training grants programme in Portugal, supported by the European Social...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersProductivity dispersion and sectoral labour shares in Europe
The stability of the labour share of income is a fundamental feature of macroeconomic models, with broad implications for the shape of the production function, inequality, and macroeconomic dynamics. However, empirically, this share has been slowly...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersTelework before the COVID-19 pandemic
This paper provides an overview of the trends and differences in the prevalence of telework across EU countries, sectors and occupations before the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Descriptive evidence shows that before the outbreak telework was...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersThe career effects of labour market conditions at entry
This paper explores the effects of labour market conditions at graduation on an individual’s work-life over the following decade. Australians graduating into a state and year with a 5 percentage point higher youth unemployment rate can expect to earn...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersProductivity and innovation at the industry level
Productivity growth has declined in most advanced economies in the past two decades and there are signs that the pace of global value chain (GVC) integration has slowed in the post-crisis period. This paper explores the role of GVCs - international...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersIndustry Concentration in Europe and North America
This report presents new evidence on industry concentration trends in Europe and in North America. It uses two novel data sources: representative firm-level concentration measures from the OECD MultiProd project, and business-group-level...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersUnconventional monetary policy and productivity
We examine the relationship between lax monetary policy, access to high-yield bond markets and productivity in the US between 2008 and 2016. Using monetary policy surprises, obtained from changes in interest rates futures in narrow windows around...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersProductivity spillovers from multinational activity to local firms in Ireland
As well as their direct effects on output and employment, the attraction of foreign direct investment is sometimes argued to provide further economic benefits through spillover effects that potentially increase the productivity performance of...
OECD > Productivity Working PapersPatterns of firm level productivity in Ireland
Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout the...
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