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 …

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 …

This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …

for services sectors. It reflects national inflation and productivity growth, while labour market tightness is negligible … idiosyncratic conditions like sectoral productivity and prices, probably due to the ongoing globalization of markets. -- Sectoral …