This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …

States and for 850 manufacturing firms in Japan, covering the 13 year period 1967-1979, and focus on the wide dispersion in …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain …

We construct company panel datasets for manufacturing firms in Belgium, France, Germany and the UK, covering the period …

outcomes. The UK, Sweden, Canada and the US obtain the highest management scores closely followed by Germany, with a gap to …

innovative and unchanged products is developed and estimated using comparable firm-level data from France, Germany, Spain and the …

US, France, Germany and the UK. These measures of managerial practice are strongly associated with firm …