detailed case studies, two - Denmark and Ireland - undertaken under fixed exchange rates (the most relevant case for many … expansion; but only in Denmark the driver of growth was internal demand. However, after three years a long slump set in as the … economy lost competitiveness. In all the others for a long time the main driver of growth was exports. In Ireland this …

: Belgium, Denmark, Ireland, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway and Italy for the year 1992. Based on the estimation of a … analysis and a measure of innovativity comparable to that of total factor productivity. This innovation accounting framework is …

on three case studies: Denmark, Ireland and Italy …

Firms in the same industry can differ in measured productivity by multiples of 3. Griliches (1957) suggests one … fixed effects. We show adding human capital variables and the wage bill decreases the ratio of the 90th to 10th productivity … quantiles from 3.27 to 2.68 across eight Danish manufacturing and service industries. The productivity dispersion decrease is …

differ in their permanent skill level and firms differ with respect to productivity. Positive (negative) sorting results if … between worker skill and firm productivity is 0.12. The assortative matching has a substantial impact on wage dispersion. We …

How do innovation and education policy affect individual career choice and aggregate productivity? This paper analyzes … the various layers that connect R&D subsidies and higher education policy to productivity growth. We put the development … in talent, frictions, and preferences. We link the model to micro-level data from Denmark and uncover a host of facts …

What can we, as users of microdata, formally guarantee to the individuals (or firms) in our dataset, regarding their …

and store scanner microdata, we present evidence that rich and poor households source their consumption from different …