contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry … values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

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

concludes with an empirical application to consumer price inflation in Germany, France and Italy, and re-examines the extent to … Carlo experiments, where we also study the estimation of the aggregate effects of micro and macro shocks. The paper …

negative causal impact on employment in offshoring firms. The effect is positive and large for productivity, and weak evidence … what is often argued, therefore, we find no evidence for a negative causal effect of offshoring on employment in Germany or …

, Ireland, Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, UK; 3) a neutral role – Denmark and Italy; and 4) a negative impact … ?the case of Portugal; 2) a positive but stable role of education in terms of inequality – Austria, Finland, France … – Germany and Greece. We thus find that in most countries dispersion in earnings increases with educational levels and that …

marginal value of being an entrepreneur as a function of wealth. Countries with high start-up costs such as Italy, Spain and … France have flatter wealth gradients. …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity …

for services sectors. It reflects national inflation and productivity growth, while labour market tightness is negligible … idiosyncratic conditions like sectoral productivity and prices, probably due to the ongoing globalization of markets. …

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 …