This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

Global climate change will increase outdoor and indoor heat loads, and may impair health and productivity for millions … future labour productivity. In most regions, climate change will decrease labour productivity, under the simple assumption of …, and the Caribbean. Climate change will significantly impact on labour productivity unless farmers, self-employed and …

This paper aims to investigate the effect of knowledge characteristics on the total factor productivity of firms … coherence vs. market coherence and of accumulated knowledge on the productivity of firms differs. Productivity increases with … project knowledge, the diversity of the project portfolio positively affects productivity. …

The growth rate of total factor productivity seems to have increased recently, at least in the United States. Higher US … productivity growth may justify higher stock market valuations than in the past and thus herald an emerging New Economy. However …, the size of the estimated growth rate of total factor productivity depends on an assumption about the factor …

Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from … correlated with labor productivity after other variables are taken into account. We find that climatic conditions do not have a … significant impact on labor productivity once we control for factor accumulation and cultural diversity within countries. Our …

For various reasons the relationship between age and productivity is a matter of policy concern. I present new … empirical research showing how productivity is affected by age. I study age effects at the individual level by analyzing data on … between age, wage and productivity. In particular I address the potential wage-productivity gap that might occur at higher …

productivity of workers. In this paper I set out the conceptual basis for such measures, provide some historical examples, and then …

While the role of exports in promoting growth in general, and productivity in particular, has been investigated … at the firm level been used to look at the extent and causes of productivity differentials between exporters and their …, while exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. …

The paper focuses on the impact of business related R&D spending on input factor productivity (IFP) using international … patent applications as a technology diffusion channel. Considering the relationship between research and productivity … present and that the impact on labor productivity for Non-G7 countries is higher due to foreign rather than domestic R …