for causal interpretation of the relationship between innovation output and labor productivity. We find that knowledge … manufacturing. This paper analyzes whether the three aspects involving innovative activity - R innovative output; and productivity … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor …

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 …

This paper models and estimates total factor productivity (TFP) growth parametrically. The model is a generalization of …

In Germany, the productivity of professional services, a sector dominated by micro and small firms, declined by 40 … percent between 1995 and 2014. This productivity decline also holds true for professional services in other European countries … small firms, despite their lower productivity levels, is not responsible for the decline. We also cannot confirm the …

We analyze the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in MSMEs with a special focus on micro firms with fewer … their labor productivity. Overall, the link between R&D, innovation, and productivity in micro firms does not largely differ … the probability of reporting innovation, with a larger effect size for product than for process innovations. Moreover …

education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even …

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

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …