This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The … impact on labour productivity; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in terms of the sign, the …, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity gains; technological change embodied in gross investment is of …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new … empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individual level by analyzing data on … between age, wage and productivity. In particular I address the potential wage-productivity gap that might occur at higher …

We evaluate the effects of employer-provided formal training on employee suggestions for productivity improvements and …

Previous empirical studies on the effect of age on productivity and wages find contradicting results. Some studies find … that if workers grow older there is an increasing gap between productivity and wages, i.e. wages increase with age while … productivity does not or does not increase at the same pace. However, other studies find no evidence of such an age related pay-productivity …

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …