. Spillovers from FDI are identified by comparing changes in total factor productivity (TFP) among domestic plants in districts …

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

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … are more dispersed in the Netherlands.In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …

exploit a 1993 policy reform in the Netherlands which tightened disability insurance (DI) criteria for existing claimants, and …

health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health outcomes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

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