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 …

productivity, wages and exports spillovers in developing, developed and transitional economies. Although theory can identify a … reviewing possible sources of FDI induced spillovers. It then provides a comprehensive evaluation of the empirical evidence on … range of possible spillover channels, robust empirical support for positive spillovers is, at best, mixed. The reasons for …

productivity and convergence. The potential existence of geographical spillovers of human capital is also considered by applying … of human capital on regional productivity and convergence, but reveals no evidence of any positive geographical … spillovers of human capital. In fact, in some specifications the spatial lag presented by tertiary studies has a negative effect …

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 …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …-2005. Moreover, I consider all industries within the economy and take account of both services and materials offshoring. My results …

While there has been a large empirical literature on productivity spillovers from foreign to domestic firms this … immediately prior to opening up their own firm have higher productivity growth than other domestic firms. This suggests that these … firm. We do not find any positive effects on firm level productivity if the owner had experience in multinationals in other …

We use firm-level data and national input-output tables from 17 countries over the 2002-2005 period to test new and … (i.e., spillovers). Providing evidence from a larger sample of countries and greater variety of firms than existing … studies, with separate estimates by firm size, age, and sector, we show: a) backward spillovers (stemming from supplying a …