consider a simple model in which the technology shifters are aggregated into one single index. The empirical model uses panel …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a …

data on market sector productivity, R&D and non-R&D intangible assets, and public sector R&D spending. We look for evidence … or defence R&D. Our findings tentatively suggest that for maximum market sector productivity impact government innovation …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … spatial panel data techniques. The empirical analysis of Spanish provinces between 1980 and 2007 confirms the positive impact … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical …

This paper uses a newly available comprehensive panel data set for manufacturing enterprises from 2001 to 2005 to … document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of …

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 …

legislation on growth. It exploits macro-panel data for OECD countries. For countries close to the technological frontier …

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 …

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 …

The aim of this paper is to apply recently developed panel cointegration techniques proposed by Pedroni (1999, 2004 …