This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention totwo … is more prevalent than greenfield investment. Wefind that British multinationals have lower levels of labour productivity …

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

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

creativity. Markets for intellectual assets protected by IP rights can produce too much or too little innovation. …

training is associated with significantly higher productivity. Raising the proportion of workers trained in an industry by one …It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. But there are … many reasons why wages and productivity may diverge. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of work …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers' convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …

, where family ownership is widespread and the productivity dispersion across firms is substantial. Time use analysis of 356 … devote to work activities, and longer working hours are associated with higher firm productivity, growth, profitability and …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …