the lower productivity, more labour-intensive service sectors of the economy to improve their poor employment performance. …

enhancing the assignment of workers to jobs in the face of firm productivity heterogeneity and skill-biased technological change …. It shows that in order to do so policy needs to be a function of the properties of the firm’s productivity distribution … emerging from the analysis is that the degree of firm productivity heterogeneity, in terms of skewness and variance, matters …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

We use a new industry-level dataset to quantify the role of ICT in explaining productivity growth in the UK, 1970 … productivity growth in the market sector. Econometric evidence also supports an important role for ICT. We also find econometric …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro …

The US has experienced a sustained increase in productivity growth since the mid-1990s, particularly in sectors that … intensively use information technologies (IT). This has not occurred in Europe. If the US “productivity miracle” is due to a … abroad. This paper shows in fact that US multinationals operating in the UK do have higher productivity than non …

United States or Sweden. Nevertheless the contribution to the long run growth of labour productivity stemming from even the …