examine the impact of mergers on a large set of outcomes including financial performance, productivity, waiting times and …

This paper compares the role innovation plays in productivity across the four European countries France, Germany, Spain … productivity (CDM model). Our econometric results suggest that overall the systems driving innovation and productivity are … productivity that is associated with more or less innovative activities …

directly to cultivators or non-landlords. Although Banerjee and Iyer (2005) find that agricultural productivity of non …

mismatches are associated with significant productivity losses …

, and that a high rate of machinery investment is a necessary prerequisite for rapid long-run productivity growth - a …

, employee share ownership, and stock options--and their link to productivity. It shows that shared capitalism has grown in the … productivity, but its impact is largest when firms combine it with other forms of shared capitalist pay and modes of organization …

This paper explores the impact of immigrants on the imports, exports and productivity of service-producing firms in the … productivity of the firm as well as its export behavior. The first effect can be understood as the re-assignment of offshore … productive tasks to immigrant workers. The second can be seen as a productivity or cost cutting effect due to immigration, and …

between appropriability mechanisms, innovation and firm-level productivity. We enrich this model in several ways. First, we … estimate the impact of the innovation output conditional on the choice of appropriability mechanisms on firms' productivity. We …

France. During the 1980s and 1990s Britain halted the relative declines in GDP per capita and labour productivity that had …