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

We investigate the role rates of return and rates of asset price decline play in explaining sources of productivity … somewhat downplay the role investment played relative to growth in multi-factor productivity in the UK and the US during 1995 … − 2000. Moreover, we show that more than half of the ICT contribution to labor productivity growth results from growth in …

We hypothesize that North-South trade is associated with knowledge spillovers that create labor productivity gains …

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. …

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 …

the age structure of establishments on productivity using representative linked employeremployee panel data. We argue that … establishment age-productivity profiles might differ for various reasons. For example, the importance of physical strength and … possibilities to compensate deficits in skills differ between sectors. We investigate differences in the age-productivity profiles …

level of R&D. We analyze whether different R&D activities show a positive influence on total factor productivity (TFP) for …

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 …