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 …

We compute rates of growth in labor productivity during the 1973-80 period for samples of individual manufacturing … contribution of such expenditures to productivity growth was about the same in both countries. Hence, the rather large differences … on the observed rates of productivity growth between the two countries can not be accounted for by differences in either …

between firm productivity and R&D appears both strong and robust in the cross-sectional dimension of the data; it is less so …

This paper compares and analyzes the growth of productivity in the manufacturing industries and firms in France and the … U.S. based on newly assembled comparable data sets in both countries. Three explanations of the recent productivity … of R&D investment, and found not to bear on the differences in productivity growth between and within the two countries …

between firm productivity and the level of its R&D invespments. In the time dimension, using deviations from fire means as … the lag structure of the effects of R&D on productivity. These effects are apparently highly variable, both in timing and …

improve productivity downstream. We confirm such prediction by estimating a model of multifactor productivity growth in which … to the productivity frontier …