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

This paper shows that inventors with an early patenting success have a higher inventive productivity during their … received for the first patent. The higher career productivity seems to be a consequence of higher individual ability rather … than cumulative advantage. Inventors with high productivity early in their career cannot increase their productivity …

Studies of firm-level data have shown that there is a huge dispersion of productivity across firms even when industries … productive. The formers’ convergence could therefore constitute an important part of productivity growth at the macroeconomic … which can explain it. Productivity convergence was stronger for labour productivity than for total factor productivity. But …