from the EUKLEMS database. Our main findings are as follows. Over 2000-2005, market sector labour productivity grew at 2 … innovation contributed 61% (=(1.24+0.45)/2.74)of labour productivity growth over the period. -- Innovation ; productivity growth …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …. -- Productivity ; welfare ; reallocation ; technology ; TFP …

funding on the ratio between innovative sales and innovative expenditures (innovative productivity) is estimated using a … public support with respect to innovative performance. Results show that innovative productivity is negatively affected by …

In this paper, we explore the impact of part-time work on firm productivity. Using a large panel data set of Italian … corporations' balance sheets for the period 2000-2010, we first estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) of each firm for each …

overall productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it … productivity losses. We estimate substitution elasticities across various types of temporary contracts that are consistent with … this interpretation. -- employment contracts ; productivity ; institutional changes …

test using a data set that combines Social Security earnings records for workers in the Veneto region of Italy with …

productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the … introduction of collective performance related pay significantly increases productivity by around 3-5 per cent, but such effect … type of parameters used - is also relevant for firm productivity. -- performance related pay ; productivity ; unions …

experience, using administrative datasets from Brazil and Italy. We categorize firms into discrete "classes" using a clustering …

possibility that without tight restrictions on migration, migrants from poor countries could transmit low productivity ("A" or … Total Factor Productivity) to rich countries – offsetting efficiency gains from the spatial reallocation of labor from low … to high-productivity places. We provide a novel assessment, proposing a simple model of dynamically efficient migration …