manufacturing industries of France, Germany, UK and USA. We first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth … of within-firm productivity changes and between-firms reallocation of shares. The evidence corroborates that within … extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels in deviation from industry average and by the over time …

The paper explores the determinants of productivity gap within the European Union in four industrial manufacturing … Development" (R&D) intensity. Our analysis reveals that some of the most important factors determining productivity gap across the … of technology for closing the productivity gap, this is not the case with the interaction between these two variables …

What has been the dynamics of productivity in the Italian business firms in the aftermath of the crisis? And what has … document what we call a neo-dualist tendency with a leader-laggard dynamics entailing a widening support of the productivity … relationship appears, either between initial training intensities and subsequent productivity changes, nor between changes in both …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

of a technique depends on both the productivity embodied in the technique and the cost of the particular input; when … productivity depends on whether the lower cost firms are the important suppliers of inputs. When the share of intermediate goods in … production is high, the lower cost firms are selected as suppliers more frequently. This raises aggregate productivity and also …

percent for total factor productivity. Overall, the distortions explain about 67 percent of the variation in income per worker …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity …

: interest rate parity, productivity based models, and a composite specification incorporating the real interest differential …