advantage of the possibility of intertemporal subsitution in order to engage in productivity-improving activities during … trend from the cycle. The results are mildly supportive of the OC theory. Demand shocks tend to have a negative impact on … productivity, both in the short and long run, and the short-run impact is stronger in those countries where fluctuations are more …

overdraft facility on productivity. To overcome potential omitted variable bias of OLS estimates, we use information on firms …

Throughout the post-war era until 1995 labour productivity grew faster in Europe than in the United States. Since 1995 …, productivity growth in the EU-15 has slowed while that in the United States has accelerated. But Europe’s productivity growth … between the EU and US going back to 1980. This paper is about the strong negative trade-off between productivity and …

the separate effects of competition and ownership concentration on firm level productivity growth. Next, we investigate … bias that could affect the productivity levels and productivity growth. Our results show that product market competition …-shaped relationship with performance. Firms with relatively dispersed and relatively concentrated ownership have higher productivity …

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 …

During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labour productivity and total factor … productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption … concentration of immigrants experienced increases in productivity. The analysis shows that there is no correlation between immigrant …

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 …

foreign ownership and plant productivity. To control for the possible endogeneity of the FDI decision, a difference … context, is the ability to follow the timing of observed changes in productivity and other aspects of plant performance. The … results suggest that foreign ownership leads to significant productivity improvements in the acquired plants. The improvements …

(larger cities promote interactions that increase productivity) and firm selection (larger cities toughen competition allowing … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left-truncates the productivity … agglomeration and firm selection using French establishment-level data and a new quantile approach. Spatial productivity differences …