?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. …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. …

driven by imports. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that provides bilateral and bisectoral data for 40 …

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains … depending on various determinants of Southern absorptive capacity. We use the novel World Input-Output Database (WIOD) that … that select only one. Elevating the absorptive capacity of emerging economies to the maximum level in the world would halve …

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a … reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups in 1997 significantly increases average establishment productivity in 1997 … productivity effect can only be measured in establishments with works councils, i.e. employee induced participation. The estimation …

High performance workplace practices were extolled as an efficient means to increase firm productivity. The empirical … evidence is disputed, however. To assess the productivity effects of a broad variety of measures, we simultaneously account for … participation enhances firm productivity in Germany, whereas incentive systems do not foster productivity. Our results further …

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 …