Heterogeneity matters : labour productivity differentiated by age and skills Muriel
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The data analysis has been completed during the research stay of Malgorzata Wasmer at the Institut National de la Statistique et des Etudes Economique in Paris. We would like to thank Didier Blanchet for his hospitality. We would also like to thank Sébastien Roux and Anthony Briant for their fruitful remarks as our work was progressing and to Virginie Régnier for her assistance in the dataset construction. Helpful comments were received from participants of the internal INSEE seminar, the 57 th
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