This study is an attempt to evaluate the effects of product and labour market regulations on industry productivity …-factor productivity is negatively and significantly influenced by both indicators of industrial prices from same industry and weighted … all countries could expect sizeable gains in multifactor productivity from deregulation reforms …

across industries, in terms of labor productivity ratios and profitability margins, both in levels and in growth rates. We … macro and micro-analyses. We, then proceeded to show that the differences across industries in average productivity and …

productivity. In the context of a semi-parametric model of productivity where these effects are assumed to enter in an additive … about the productivity-age relationship. We illustrate our methods using data on the publications 1986-1997 by 465 French …

This paper introduces dynamics in the R&D-to-innovation and innovation-to-productivity relationships, which have mostly … conditional mean of labor productivity: through an observed binary indicator, an observed intensity variable or through the … Community Innovation Survey. The results provide evidence of robust unidirectional causality from innovation to productivity and …

investigate the influence of a key element of social capital - trust - on labour productivity in intangible-intensive industries …. We find that in such industries, productivity gains from high levels of trust are stronger than elsewhere, while too … strict hiring and firing regulations are more damaging for productivity. Using a more limited sample for which data on …

&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of … positive correlations with productivity, average wage and the share of administrative managers, as well as negative ones with …

This paper studies the links between productivity, innovation and research at th level. We introduce three new features … the available data: only a small proportion of firms engage in resea apply for patents; productivity, innovation and …

In this paper, we make a first attempt to explore the relationship between computer use and productivity in French … level in the years 1987, 1991 and 1993, with information on firm productivity, capital intensity and average wage available … evidence that the computer impacts on productivity are indeed positive and that the returns to the firm should at least be in …

A comparative study of the contribution of R&D to firm-level productivity in French and United States manufacturing … control for both sources of estimation bias, and we find 1) overall, the contribution of R&D to sales productivity growth …

to replicate and update a series of studies on French R&D and productivity growth at the firm level during the 1970s. The …: first. having a longer history of R&D expenditures helps in predicting the productivity growth of firms, but the choice of … grounds over the rate of returns variation which has been used in the past. Finally, the productivity, of knowledge capital in …