This work attempts to shed light on the “information technology productivity paradox”. Employing a large data set of … Italian manufacturing firms we compute ICT marginal productivity across different cluster of firms and the impact of …/introduction behaviour and firm’s technological investment aptitude have any role in explaining ICT productivity. We find that low capital …

discussion on possible causes of productivity change in banking. We demonstrate how the banking sector’s service production can … productivity Tornqvist indices for six countries (Finland, Sweden, United Kingdom, Germany, France and Italy) over a period varying … from 11 to 20 years. According to the results, Finnish banking sector productivity has improved via a substantial reduction …

a non-homothetic technology. Observable skills are not quantitatively important as determinants of productivity …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

high regional disparities, varying with the sector. We also find diverse combinations in productivity and unit price of …

A model is used to study the impact of ownership on productivity and wages. Data on private and public manufacturing in … between wages and productivity in the private sector; no such relationship exists in the public sector. … Turkey during the 1950-1998 period indicate that productivity is higher in the private sector.There is a close relationship …

, they pay higher wages, and they are less likely to fail. The research also shows that manufacturing plants that use …