productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

structured practices for performance monitoring, target setting and incentives enjoy greater productivity and profitability … likely to be found in establishments that export, who are larger (or are part of bigger firms), and have more educated …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

’ hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …