impressive productivity gains. But it is easy to confuse true productivity advances in transportation industries with changes in … productivity can be overwhelmed by even subtle changes in the traffic mix. After controlling for endogenous changes in the … data, 1982-1997, with observed productivity changes much more likely due to changes in speed limits and the dimensions of …

received their degree in the years 2000 to 2005 in Europe or the USA. Research productivity is evaluated alternatively as the … number of publications, results suggest a higher productivity by graduates from European universities than from USA … questions: Are there major productivity differences between graduates from American and European institutions? If so, how …

This article puts the relationship between wage dispersion and firm productivity to an updated test, taking advantage …-invariant workplace characteristics and dynamics in the adjustment process of productivity, empirical results reveal the existence of a … positive impact from conditional intra-firm wage dispersion to firm productivity (measured by the average value added per hour …

Productivity as a measure of innovation and focus on the three largest European countries – France, Germany and the United Kingdom …

productivity, but they also underscore the risks of quantity-based incentives where quality is important …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international tradeintegration is associated with higher labour shares in …