-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more … classroom training. We then demonstrate that on-the-job training has a positive impact on firm-level productivity through …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …

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 … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

) and objective data on productivity, profits and establishment survival. We establish that workplace education and training …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output …

, and (iii) productivity and growth, relative to the contributions of the entrepreneurs’ counterparts, i.e. the ‘control … very important - but specific - function in the economy. They engender relatively much employment creation, productivity …

unions are remarkable: unions in the workplace significantly improve productivity but reduce enterprise profitability …