The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

's future research output. After adjustment for a range of personal and institutional characteristics, departmental research … productivity improves when the incoming department Chair's publications are highly cited. A one SD increase in citations is … associated with a 0.5 SD later rise in departmental productivity. By contrast, the quality-weighted publication record per se of …

, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …

productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic …

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 … – in the years 1994-2007. Unlike previous research, which mainly employs a regional approach, we analyse the link between …

productivity of a firm, the more likely it is to opt for centralized wage formation where it can hide behind less productive firms …

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …