, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence … convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to … traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is …

, reading and science using the PISA 2012 dataset. Multilevel models are used in the estimation. The results suggest that the … a difference-in-differences estimation method, it was found that early tracking has a direct effect on the gender gap in …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

decades its productivity growth has stagnated. As a result, the productivity gap of Trentino widened by over 20% compared to … regions with the same productivity level in 2000. The benchmarking of productivity drivers in Trentino with those of “peer …” regions points to several policy priorities, including: reviving productivity in tradeable sectors, also through increased …