to initiate adequate investment incentives. Using a two-equation estimation approach, a direct competition effect (more … still found, the estimation results confirm the idea of asymmetric substitutability between telecommunication …

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. …

productivity growth. The sectoral setting further allows us to identify the differential impacts of intangible capital across …

development as well as productivity and firm performance. Eventually, the survey does not only allow the identification of main …

productivity growth based on growth accounting and econometric estimation of production functions. The growth accounting … contribution of intangibles to labor productivity growth is generally highest in manufacturing and finance. The estimated output …

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 …

in the profit estimation by employing panel system GMM methods. An increase in the share of apprentices has no effect on … than their productivity effects during the apprenticeship period. …