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 …

While Spain had traditionally under-performed its European counterparts in terms of labor productivity, the trend is … reversed after 2007. The evolution of aggregate productivity in Spain during the Great Recession largely responds to the … companies between 1995 and 2012, we show that the recent increase in Spanish aggregate productivity also responds to the …

This paper evaluates the impact of the widespread use of fixed-term contracts in Spain on firms' TFP, via its effect on … rates increase firm's productivity while high shares of temporary contracts decrease it. Both effects are quantitatively …

productivity growth than other firms, including other host country suppliers of multinationals. These findings provide first …

's innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and innovation activities to become substitutes although they are generally natural complements …

innovation on firm survival and firm productivity, which constitute the two main channels through which innovation drives growth …-linearity and volatility in the gains from R&D/innovation, particularly in terms of its effects on firm survival and productivity … perspectives that inform the empirical models allow for heterogeneity in the effects of R&D/innovation on firm survival and …

dispersion, and 2) the correlation between within-firm skill dispersion and productivity is positive in industries with higher …

Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …The objective of this paper is to analyse the role of migrants in innovation in Europe. We use Total Factor … migration and innovation at the sectoral level. This allows us to measure the direct contribution of migrants in the sector in …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …