deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …-factor productivity seems to be more robust for Germany than for the Netherlands. …

firms with innovative experience. In an analysis based on firm?level panel data covering the period 1994?99, system GMM … estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in … manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … aspect. Using German firm-level data, we find that organizational change increases the returns to he use of CO2 reducing … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be …. Moreover, dividing IT-investment by the type of IT clarifies that the kind of IT a firm uses is more important for productivity …The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …

spending on health, education and transport on firm productivity. Our identification strategy is based on within industry …-province differences between firms of the effects of public spending. We show that public spending composition affects firm productivity … effects of fiscal policy and by unobserved industry- or province-specific productivity shocks. In contrast to related existing …

This paper explores whether investments in information and communication technologies (ICT) and firm?sponsored training …?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …

Using German firm-level data, an endogenous switching regression model within a production function framework is … estimated in order to explore differences in labor productivity between IT outsourcing and non-IT outsourcing firms. This … positively affecting firms? labor productivity. An additional analysis indicates that IT outsourcing, in the medium-term, has a …