clients, human capital development, ICT usage, product innovation and learning by exporting, with an R&D effect only in the …Using micro data from Brazilian manufacturing firms, this paper investigates the impact of a wide set of innovation … activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for …

productivity among manufacturing firms in the context of a least developed country, Tanzania. In particular it seeks to evaluate … the importance of technological variables - such as R&D, education and training, innovation, foreign ownership, licensing … appear to affect productivity. Some of the institutional variables on the contrary are highly significant and robust to …

presents some empirical evidence on the effects of innovation on employment growth and therefore on firms' productivity with … product innovation and the net contribution from sales growth of old products. However, the contribution of product innovation … process innovation. The sources of employment growth during the period are split equally between the net contribution of …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

This Selected Issues paper focuses on financing constraints and productivity in Estonia. The paper examines two …-level total factor productivity (TFP)? These questions are particularly important in the current environment, in which credit …