training leads to more product and process innovation, with on-the-job training playing a role that is as important as … stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … investing in product innovation in the majority of industries. Frontier firms enjoy the highest returns to product innovation … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …

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 …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements. …

of product market regulation on mark-ups, firm dynamics, investment, employment, innovation productivity, and output … country data to study the effect of product market regulation and reform on a country’s macroeconomic performance. After a …

answer the question: What is the contribution of entrepreneurs to (i) employment generation and dynamics, (ii) innovation …, 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 …

model, we use novel and detailed productivity and survey data from nine large firms in three industries: call … profits per worker and the difference is driven by referrals from high productivity workers. …