. The first essay studies the interaction between economic integration, product and process innovation, and relative skill … enterprises respond by investing more aggressively in both product and process innovation. The relative demand for unskilled … rigidity. The third essay analyses how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm performance in a …

possible innovation activities: internal R+D and buying external knowledge. The methodology to evaluate the hypothesis is based … and innovative plants in Chile. The results do not support the hypothesis of complementarity and suggest a substitution … between innovation activities that were takeninto consideration. The absence of complementarity in the group of studied plants …

the determinants of telecommunications investments and presents two possible solutions to the investment problem. The …

looks at the effects on productivity of different forms of investment--in physical capital, in Research & Development, and … investment across all three categories--in machinery, in innovation and in people. …The relationship between technology, productivity and employment is a complex one. Increased productivity can lead not …

access to credit increasesTFP up to 1.9% per 1000 EUR of additional credit. The use of variable inputs and capital investment … increases up to 2.3% and 29%, respectively, per 1000 EUR of additionalcredit. Due to credit-financed investment in labour …

An important theme in modern research on productivity has been that technological progress may be embodied in capital …

to improve their establishment level productivity relative to a peer control groups of firms. We find no evidence that … productivity after going private, there is little evidence of difference-in-differences efficiency gains relative to peer groups of … decision effects. Also, we do not find evidence that myopic markets lead to under-investment at the establishment level. On the …

mechanism behind this finding, we first explore the intensive margin and show that high-MRPK firms increase their investment and …

This paper examines the linkages among agricultural total factor productivity, farm size, and farm household … relationship between productivity and measures of farm structure. The results support the expected relationships between the … endogenous variables, namely that productivity and farm size are positively related, farm size and off-farm work participation …

We assess long-run patterns of global agricultural productivity growth between 1970 and 2005 and examine the … relationship between investments in technology capital and productivity. To measure agricultural total factor productivity (TFP) we … increases in extension-schooling without commensurate improvements in research capacity did not improve productivity performance. …