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

labour productivity fell in the UK. And we consider the evolution of the aggregate depreciation rate and of capital …

estimates of the tax_price elasticity of R&D and the effect of R&D on productivity. For the latter we allow R&D to have an … effect on technology transfer (catching up with the technological frontier) as well as innovation (pushing the frontier …

productivity. The “Solow Paradox” of the absence of an impact of ICT on productivity no longer holds, if it ever did. Both growth … accounting and econometric evidence suggest an important role for ICTs in accounting for productivity. In fact, the empirical … estimates suggest a much larger impact of ICT on productivity than would be expected from the standard neoclassical model that …

panel of industries in 17 countries from 1993-2007. We find that industrial robots increased both labor productivity and ….37 percentage points. We also find that robots increased both wages and total factor productivity. While robots had no significant …

growth and major strands of the empirical literatures on R&D, productivity growth, and productivity convergence. Starting … foundations for the reduced-form equations for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth frequently estimated empirically using … industry-level data. R&D affects both innovation and the assimilation of others’ discoveries (‘absorptive capacity’). Long …

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 …