&D indicators and measures of labor and total factor productivity, average wage and skill composition, on four panel data samples of … positive correlations with productivity, average wage and the share of administrative managers, as well as negative ones with …

estimation of longitudinal models eliminate many sources of unmeasured heterogeneity that could confound productivity comparisons … technology (IT) and productivity by investigating several plant-level mechanisms through which IT could promote productivity …

is positively related to industry productivity growth. The effects are very modest -- adding at most 0.07 percentage … points to annual labor productivity growth …

, and the effects of different investment profiles on total factor productivity growth on Dutch firm-level data. We estimate … an integrated model of investment profile adoption and total factor productivity growth. We find that the three …

We study the impact of firm level choices of ICT, R&D, exporting and importing on the evolution of productivity and its … “techies”. We develop a methodology for estimating firm level productivity that allows us to measure both Hicks-neutral and … from 2009 to 2013. We find that techies and importing of intermediate inputs raise skill-biased productivity, while imports …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

through which upstream sector anticompetitive regulations may impact productivity growth: business investments in R&D and in … relating productivity explicitly to R&D and ICT capital as well as to upstream regulations, and two factor demand functions … finding that the impact of upstream regulations on total factor productivity can be sizeable, and they provide evidence that a …

Productivity reflects not only how efficiently inputs are transformed into outputs, but also how well information is …