We hypothesise that North–South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labour productivity gains depending on various aspects of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World…
We examine the academe–industry wage gap. Once self- selection and different personal characteristics of academic and industrial scientists have been taken into account the wage gap narrows from 28 to 13 %.…
We revisit the widely discussed contribution of investment in ICT to economic growth, focusing on differences in productivity and quality of ICT across countries and time. In a growth accounting approach, we…
Using a large-scale linked employer–employee dataset from western Germany, this paper presents new evidence on the wage premium of collective bargaining contracts. In contrast to previous studies, we seek to…
