This paper empirically studies the impact of the adoption of open source software (OSS) on firms' labor productivity … operating systems for servers and general OSS applications has no impact on firm level labor productivity, while the adoption of … OSS operating systems for PCs impacts labor productivity negatively. This result points to the costs associated with the …

contribute. On a complex and dynamic platform like Wikipedia, this decision is expected to depend on the way the content is … organized. We analyse whether the hyperlinks on Wikipedia channel the attention of producers towards more central articles. We … observe a sample 7,635 articles belonging to the category 'EconomicsI on German Wikipedia over 153 weeks and measure their …

contribute. On a complex and dynamic platform like Wikipedia, this decision is expected to depend on the way the content is … organized. We analyse whether the hyperlinks on Wikipedia channel the attention of producers towards more central articles. We … observe a sample 7,635 articles belonging to the category 'Economics' on German Wikipedia over 153 weeks and measure their …

On Wikipedia, the largest online encyclopedia, editors who contribute to the same articles and exchange comments on … individual monthly contributions to Wikipedia (among individuals that contribute to Wikipedia every month) by about 0.44 per cent … overall monthly contributions to Wikipedia. …

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 …

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …

linkages between the firm's R&D investment, product and process innovations, and future productivity and profits. The dynamic …&D investment. For the median productivity firm, investment in R&D raises firm value by 3.0 percent in a group of hightech … significantly affect R&D investment rates and productivity changes in the high-tech industries. …

the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employeremployee panel data. We argue that … establishment age-productivity profiles might differ for various reasons. For example, the importance of physical strength and … possibilities to compensate deficits in skills differ between sectors. We investigate differences in the age-productivity profiles …

?intensive firms. Comparing the impacts on productivity and wage costs shows that ICT raise the profitability of training high …

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. …