estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

This paper analyses the impact of business process outsourcing (BPO) on firm productivity based on a comprehensive …-level productivity. The results are robust across different estimation techniques. …

This paper measures the productivity impact of management-led participative establishment practices. On the basis of a … reduction of hierarchies and autonomous work groups in 1997 significantly increases average establishment productivity in 1997 … productivity effect can only be measured in establishments with works councils, i.e. employee induced participation. The estimation …

Wage and productivity effects of training are compared to study how the training rent is shared between employers and … employees. With panel data from 1996-2002, I analyse the impact of continuing training on wages and productivity in a Cobb … on both wages and productivity. The effect on productivity is about three times higher than the one on wages. High …

This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … the share of trained employees in 1997 is higher, productivity is significantly higher in the period 1997 - 1999. Formal … internal and external courses have the highest positive impact on productivity, self-induced learning and quality circles have …

wages to the variability in productivity conditions in a unionsised oligopoly framework. The model distinguishes centralised … firm heterogeneity under centralised wage-setting, as unions internalise negative externalities of a wage increase for low-productivity …

most prominent explanatory variables in the literature: the capital-output ratio, total factor productivity and trade …