/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …

The paper explores the determinants of productivity gap within the European Union in four industrial manufacturing … Development' (R&D) intensity. Our analysis reveals that some of the most important factors determining productivity gap across the … of technology for closing the productivity gap, this is not the case with the interaction between these two variables …

We investigate the impact of immigration on productivity in the UK, using newly published ONS data on employees of non …-EU migration and productivity, and some weaker evidence of a negative association between EU migration and productivity, although …