This paper calculates returns to scale and productivity growth in UK manufacturing establishments in the electronics … productivity growth. We use a matching and difference-in-differences methodology which allows us to construct a reasonable … counterfactual and to determine the post-acquisition changes in RTS and productivity that can be attributed to the incidence of …

The first aim of this paper is to decompose the productivity advantage of foreign multinationals into two components … two components of productivity growth. We do so by analyzing the effects of an acquisition of a domestic establishment by … rate of technology transfer from the MNE parent companies, (iii) the productivity growth effects are not confined to the …

job creation in the US, is its slower productivity growth. This paper begins with data showing that US productivity growth … has been essentially zero since 1973 outside of manufacturing. In contrast, productivity growth in US manufacturing has …

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 …

productivity. These results suggest a new direction for policy that focuses on instruments to enhance entrepreneurship capital. …

There has been considerable controversy over the apparent slowdown in productivity growth in Britain and in other … industrial countries over 1971-80 and the apparent speed up in at least British productivity growth over 1980-83. This paper … data for 1956-83. This makes it possible to distinguish cyclical movements in productivity caused by variations in labour …

behavior of the primal and dual productivity residuals by allowing for nonconstant returns to scale and imperfect competition …. Likewise, the presence of the quasi-fixity of capital helps to reconcile the behavior of the primal and dual productivity …