cover essentially all firms in the Finnish business sector, we first document that labor productivity dispersion is very … market equilibrium and whether innovation subsidies can improve industry productivity by mitigating such a tax distortion. …

productivity. An important issue, therefore, is how to measure allocative efficiency. We compare popular indicators of allocative … productivity and to the Olley-Pakes (OP) covariance component, which is currently the most popular measure of allocative efficiency …

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …

occupational structures when explaining productivity and profitability gaps between global and local firms. The findings indicate … reflected in their productivity, it is not as clearly reflected in their profitability.The findings imply that employees have … captured a dominant share of the productivity advantage of global firms. …

How do new firms contribute to industry productivity growth at the time of entry and then subsequently over their … have a negative effect on industry productivity growth initially, but a prolonged process of market selection and exit … during the early stages of the firms’ lifecycle mitigates this negative effect subsequently. The positive productivity …

The determinants of productivity-enhancing micro-level restructuring are examined empirically with a panel of the … twelve Finnish manufacturing industries. It is hypothesized that R&D leads to productivity diversity among plants, which in … “creative destruction” on industry productivity growth is measured with the between-component of productivity decomposition …

The labor productivity effects of portability and connectivity of information and communication technology (ICT) are … productivity by 9% (corresponding to 5% output elasticity), portability by 32%, wireline connectivity by 14%, and wireless … marginal costs and returns. Although increasing ICT penetration can no longer be a major source of productivity growth in …

/plants in the Finnish business sector. Using a decomposition method applied in labour economics and productivity analysis, we …

technological change and productivity growth takes place in an economy. Quite normally, some 30-50% of an industrys productivity … growth is due to this particular mechanism. Disruptions to this mechanism would have considerable effects on productivity …