public investment partly account for Mexico’s lackluster growth and productivity performance in the context of intensified …Social programs can reduce productivity and growth as they inadvertently generate perverse incentives for workers and … aggregate labor productivity. In turn, differences in the cost of labor produce differences in returns to capital across firms …

between infrastructure and private productivity. The second subject is the determinants of regional infrastructure investment … infrastructure to private production; the essays three to five study besides the productivity effects also the determinants of …

rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a … among heterogeneous producers and increases average productivity and profit levels, firm-level bargaining allows less … productive entrants to remain in the market. The positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity can, however …

on productivity growth, and additionally export behavior has to be persistent over time. Both conditions are empirically …

-, consultation-, and co-determination rights. The effects works councils have on productivity and profits are estimated for medium …-sized manufacturing firms using information from the IAB establishment panel. The results indicate a positive effect on productivity of 6 …

This paper empirically investigates and identifies the main contributing factors to output and productivity growth in … capital and ICT are important drivers of output growth in Australia, so their omission from standard productivity measures …

Knowledge accumulation in the richer countries provides them with comparative advantages in higher productivity … products. The countries that import the higher productivity intermediate products and capital equipments produced in the richer … productivity level associated with a country’s imports. Using instrumental variable method (to address the endogeneity problems …

positively correlated with productivity improvements and growth in real output. Furthermore, while governance affects efficiency …