on top inventors based on the universe of US patents 1971 - 2007 to quantify the productivity advantages of Silicon … Rochester high-tech cluster. I test whether the change in cluster size affected the productivity of inventors outside Kodak and … the photography sector. I find that between 1996 and 2007 the productivity of non-Kodak inventors in Rochester declined by …

We present the first panel estimates of the productivity effects of the unique German institution of parity, board … job satisfaction, we find positive productivity effects of the 1976 extension to parity co-determination in large firms. …

We investigate the impact of sickness absenteeism on productivity by using rich longitudinal matched employer … fixed effects. Our main finding is that, in general, sickness absenteeism substantially dampens firm productivity. An … increase of 1 percentage point in the rate of sickness absenteeism entails a productivity loss of 0.24%. Yet, we find that the …

productivity growth ; technology indicator ; technology shifter ; OECD countries …

In this paper, we explore the impact of workers' tenure on firm productivity, using rich longitudinal matched employer … theoretical predictions, we find that tenure exhibits an inverted-U-shaped relationship with respect to productivity. The … beneficial for productivity in contexts characterized by a certain degree of routineness and lower job complexity. Along the same …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical … on the variables under consideration. -- Regional convergence ; productivity ; human capital composition ; geographical …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …