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 …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a … findings can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm …'s productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.125; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in …

labour-productivity growth in the US and larger countries of the EU. The continental West-European countries show a … from intangibles, and also larger multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth rates related to the restructuring of those …

firm's ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here concerns the … linking firms' financial and production data with the patent information, we estimate a modified knowledge production function … in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Our findings show that …

labor market flexibility, in a general equilibrium model of dynamic labor demand where the productivity of firms evolves ….e. unexpected changes in the drift and standard deviation of the stochastic process describing the dynamics of productivity, depends … workers with idiosyncratic productivity below some threshold value. A more volatile environment, and a lower rate of …

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

This paper identifies the varieties and dynamics of service economies in Europe, analysing the role of knowledge base … plays a prominent role, while heterogeneity is driven by uneven knowledge bases and innovative efforts. …

This paper investigates the connection between firm entry and exit and labour productivity growth. The study has its … importance of productivity enhancing restructuring has been increasingly acknowledged and all these theories depict the … productivity enhancing effects that external restructuring - in particular firm entry and exit - may have. Despite the vast …