markets. This study analyses whether a SRI screening process applied to equities results in a different performance outcome … performance effects of SRI screens. The 29 SRI stock indexes are analysed by single-factor models with benchmarks that closely …

analyse the impact of the proportion of different occupational groups of apprentices on firm performance. We use … representative matched employer?employee panel data that allow us to correct for different sources of estimation bias. We show that … firm performance: the companies cover their training costs immediately. In contrast, companies with apprentices in the …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …

product development resulting in potential productivity gains for the firms. This paper analyses the relationship between … social software applications and labour productivity. Using firm-level data of 907 German manufacturing and service firms …, this study examines whether these applications have a positive impact on labour productivity. The analysis is based on a …

employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and … analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access …. However, an instrumental variable approach reveals that mobile internet use does not cause higher labour productivity. …

We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business …-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to …-investment and produce significantly more efficiently than firms that do not use B2B. Firms' labour productivity is enhanced by using …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms? export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing … the performance of exporting and non-exporting firms. In this paper, we apply the newly developed generalised propensity …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the … age structure of the workforce. We apply a production function approach with heterogenous labour to firmlevel data from … between labour productivity and IT intensity is not affected by the proportion of older workers. …

firms. Performance is measured in terms of labour productivity and realised process and product innovations. The analysis …The paper provides empirical evidence for the causal impact of broadband Internet on the economic performance of German … productivity whereas it exhibits a positive and significant impact on their innovation activity. …