Understanding the allocation of skilled labor across industries is necessary to explain interindustry wage differences and the effect of trade on wages. This paper develops a multisector assignment model with both heterogeneous labor and a non-labor input in which high skill agents match with high input productivity sectors where they can best leverage their talent. When the ranking of sectors ...

Using longitudinal data on spanning the 2002-03 through 2007-08 school years in Florida and North Carolina, this paper decomposes the workforce dynamics among teachers and principals in low-performing schools that significantly improved their performance. In general, I find strong, consistent evidence of human capital development (i.e., improvements in the productivity of the teachers and princ...

BACKGROUND Total hip arthroplasty (THA) is a cost-effective surgical intervention that substantially improves quality of life. Recent advances have broadened the indications to include younger, working-age patients. Despite these benefits, there are often long waits for this procedure in Canada. Furthermore, there exists little documentation of the ability of patients waiting for THA to maintai...

COVID-19 has impacted the way organizations operate their businesses as well as how they interact with workforce. Employee experience is no longer a HR buzz word, but it become an important driver in productivity and engagement at workplace. The paper aims identifying employees’ experiences during pandemic approaches which the companies managers have laid down to assist employees the peri...

OBJECTIVE To explore the combination of data on functioning and work load for early identification of patients at risk for diminished work productivity in rheumatoid arthritis (RA). PATIENTS AND METHODS In the FIN-RACo trial, 162 patients with recent onset RA and available for the workforce were treated with either a combination of disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs) or a single DM...

The growth of the Malaysian economy has gone through several phases and strategies from inputdriven to productivity-driven and knowledge-based-driven, which is in line with the world scenario. The knowledge-based-driven of economic growth is crucial as it will raise level of competitiveness of the country, especially in facing the world challenges. This paper attempts to observe to what extent ...

Theoretical research in international trade increasingly focuses on …rm heterogeneity in di¤erentiated product markets following Melitz (2003). A key implication of this line of research is that …rms are unevenly affected by trade liberalization: low productivity …rms exit, intermediate-productivity domestic …rms contract, and high-productivity exporting …rms expand. More recent theoretical res...

Labour productivity in most of the EU countries grew much slower than in US over the last one and a half decades and the difference is attributed to the difference in the use of ICT. Analysing EU KLEMS database (capital (K), labour (L), energy (E), material (M) and service inputs (S)) and Eurostat database it is noted that the micro and small enterprises, numerically predominant in the EU count...