investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … of market sector spillovers from intangible investment and from public R&D. We find (a) no evidence of spillover effects … from intangible investment at the market sector level, including from R&D, (b) strong evidence of market sector spillovers …

We provide evidence on the effect of ICT investment on the propensity to offshore for a sample of Italian manufacturing … firms. To deal with the endogeneity of ICT investment we adopt an innovative identification strategy based on the …

investment in information and communication technology (ICT) and energy use, influence productivity levels. A dynamic factor …This empirical study examines changes in industrial productivity in Korea between 1980 and 2009, focusing on how … productivity growth in 30 industrial sectors. Describing industry-specific productivity levels is important for policymakers when …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

Can the existence of positive productivity spillovers between co-workers be explained by the presence of …

follows a Poisson process where firms improve their productivity through investment in Ramp;D. The less there are firms in the …

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

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 …