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This paper provides evidence on the impact of digitalisation on productivity in Slovenia during the COVID-19 crisis …. Together, these findings highlight the potential of digitalisation to support resilience and stronger productivity growth …. The pandemic affected overall labour productivity negatively. Nonetheless, results show that firms that were more ICT …
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This paper analyses the role of intangibles and digital adoption for firm-level productivity in the Netherlands drawing … on a newly constructed panel data set of Dutch enterprises. It provides robust evidence on productivity effects of … significant impact on firm-level productivity growth in the service sector and for younger firms. Productivity benefits from …
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Despite a general trend of increasing labour income inequality, there have been differences in the timing, intensity and even direction of these changes across OECD countries. These stylized facts have led to numerous studies about the main determinants of labour income inequality and, as a...
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productivity level by removing the structural bottlenecks holding back the expansion of its digital sector and digital innovation … implement its new national digitalisation strategy so that government agencies and social partners can advance digital …
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government’s ambitious digitalisation strategy (Digital Slovenia 2030 Strategy) aims at putting Slovenia among the five most … digitalised countries in Europe. Achieving this objective would foster productivity growth and help offsetting the negative …
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Adequate and well-functioning infrastructure is a key ingredient to growth and well-being. The benefits to activity of efficient spending in energy, water, transport and communication sectors go well beyond their contribution to capital accumulation. Good infrastructure facilitates trade,...
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Key indicators show Germany belonging to the countries in the OECD with strong innovation activity even though some weakening in Germany’s position relative to other OECD countries has occurred recently. While the redirection of resources towards unification-related spending as well as low...
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general framework conditions for innovation and growth. Austria has increased its R&D spending as a share of GDP over the last … ten years, largely reflecting more business R&D, and aims at increasing it further to 3% of GDP by 2010. Innovation … diffusion of innovation and productivity growth. It suggests focusing more on these framework conditions, notably by …
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of productivity shocks, namely the adoption of information and communications technology and the location decisions of …This paper investigates the effect of product market regulations on the international diffusion of productivity shocks … observed divergence of productivity in OECD countries, given the emergence of new general-purpose technologies over the 1990s …
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leads to changes in incumbent firms’ productivity. We find that platform use increases labour productivity growth in firms … employment. What is more, productivity gains are greater for small firms and firms in the middle of the productivity distribution … in narrowing productivity gaps among firms. Finally, productivity gains are stronger in more dynamic platform markets …
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