role of rising rates of investment. Because labor reallocation across sectors, TFP growth at the sector level and … investment are all inter-related, simple growth decompositions that are often used in the literature are not appropriate for … continues to absorb more than half of all fixed investment. If capital had been allocated efficiently, China could have achieved …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … investment and, subsequently, lower employment and productivity growth. There is little evidence that unionization leads to … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union …

This paper examines the impact of employment protection legislation on productivity in the OECD, using annual cross …-country aggregate data on the degree of regulations and industry-level data on productivity from 1982 to 2003. We adopt a difference …-in-differences framework, which exploits likely differences in the productivity effect of dismissal regulations in different industries. Our …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects …,300 suggesting that in some respects investment subsidies can be cost effective. …

This study proposes an alternative methodology for measuring environmentally sensitive productivity growth. The … combination, the conventional Malmquist-Luenberger productivity index is modified to give the alternative sequential … environmentally sensitive productivity index. This proposed index is employed in measuring productivity growth and its decomposed …

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 …

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 …