Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

during the crisis in 2008 and 2009, ICT-intensive firms were hit less hard with respect to their productivity. This holds in … innovations during that period which could explain their better productivity performance compared to non-ICT intensive firms. …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

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 …

of an ageing workforce, this paper measures the impact of changes in the age structure of establishments on productivity … methods. We find that establishment productivity increases with the share of employees until the age of 50-55 and only … account endogeneity, time dependencies, or crucial information correlated with age shares and productivity. Large standard …

Firm heterogeneity explains the productivity driven selection mechanism that determines aggregate productivity growth …

The paper provides empirical evidence for the question whether firms' ITenabled labour productivity is affected by the … between labour productivity and IT intensity is not affected by the proportion of older workers. …