Productivity and income growth rates and differentials vary widely among OECD countries. In this chapter, Bart van Ark … develops a framework for the understanding of these productivity and income differences. The framework breaks GDP per capita … into two basic drivers: labour supply and labour productivity. Labour supply is in turn determined by the hours worked per …

area GDP per capita. Second, we develop measures of human capital that reflect the types of knowledge within U ….S. metropolitan areas. Regional knowledge stocks related to the provision of producer services and information technology are …

variance of its components, which is then applied to measure the relative contributions of productivity, hours per worker, and … employment to cyclical output growth across a panel of countries. Measured productivity contributes more to the cycle in Europe …

characterized by far less mobility and opportunity. While we recognize the potential explanations of reduced productivity and age …

Gegenstand dieser Arbeit ist die Konstruktion eines Ordnungsrahmens für den systemischen Umgang mit Wissen im … Wissensmanagement systematisch auf und vermittelt ein Verständnis über die Zusammenhänge zwischen den Gestaltungsdimensionen Mensch … konzipierte Ordnungsrahmen verwendet, um die Eignung eines realen Enterprise 2.0-Ansatzes (Wiki-Plattform) für Wissensmanagement …

This bachelor thesis examines the extent to which extra-personal influencing factors shape the behavior of knowledge … urgently, especially given the approaching wave of retirements and the resulting risk of a massive loss of knowledge. For this … organizational context and the process of offboarding promote or inhibit knowledge sharing behavior. The hypotheses are tested by …

concerned with productivity and competitiveness issues. Not surprisingly, formal education is the preferred and most … causal impact on productivity, as well as a more nuanced approach to policy in this area. In this chapter, Arthur Sweetman … the impact of education on earnings at the individual level and on productivity at the macroeconomic level, and on issues …

This paper provides an empirical analysis of energy- and labour-productivity convergence at a detailed sectoral level …-country variation in productivity performance depends on the level of aggregation. Both patterns of convergence as well as divergence … catch up with technological leaders, in particular in terms of energy productivity. Moreover, the results show that …

technological change, by exploring trends in energy- and labour productivity development for 14 OECD countries and four sectors over … considerably to macroeconomic energy-productivity growth while in other countries they partly offset energy-efficiency improvements …. In contrast, structural changes only play a minor role in explaining macroeconomic labour-productivity developments. We …

The 21st century brings along the recognition for the necessity to understand and measure the activity of knowledge … in order to develop policies that would promote these benefits. Knowledge management (KM) implies any activity regarding … the capture and the diffusion of knowledge within the organization. In our study we analyze the impacts and dimensions of …