have declined because of difficulties in telecommunication sector. Productivity analysis shows that high country-level R …&D expenditures as in Finland and the United States - have positive correlation with labour productivity in manufacturing. Moreover …, labour productivity in manufacturing in OECD countries relates positively with FDI and R&D expenditure growth. Also the level …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …Despite ubiquitous discussions of robots’ potential impact, there is almost no systematic empirical evidence on their …

temporary workers that obtain an open-ended contract is low. Second, the productivity growth in Chile after 1997 is practically … zero and human capital accumulation is one of the factors that might help to recover the path of productivity growth. …