productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor … intensive services. …

productivity - hold for knowledge intensive services. Combining the models of Crepon et al. (1998) and of Ackerberg et al. (2015 … intensive services benefit from innovation activities in the sense that these activities causally increase their labor … intensive services. …

services as they are for manufacturing. We use a longitudinal data base forDutch firms in the retail and hotel and catering … sectors to identify around 13,000 new-firm start-ups and47,000 incumbents in the services and track them over subsequent years …. We are then able test to seewhether the Stylized Results identified based on manufacturing still hold in the services …