productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

microeconometric literature on R&D and productivity, and the empirical literature on productivity convergence. Starting from a … reduced-form equation for Total Factor Productivity (TFP) growth that is commonly used in the empirical literature. We allow a … underestimate R&D's social rate of return and provides an explanation for long-run productivity levels at the industry level. …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 … productivity. A one percentage point increase in training is associated with an increase in value added per hour of about 0.6% and …

' hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firmsÒ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

studies as a whole, there is compelling evidence that human capital increases productivity. Although there is an important …