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 …

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 …

quality has implications for labour productivity. Almost half of labour productivity growth of 1.4% per annum since 1988 can … be attributed to the rise in labour quality. Labour productivity measured as output per quality-adjusted working hour …

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 …

Analyzing a novel dataset we find significantly positive effects of basic, and applied and experimental knowledge … stocks on domestic output and productivity for a panel of 10 OECD countries. This letter updates the work of, among others …

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. …

This paper investigates the impact of wage dispersion on firm productivity in different working environments. More … has, to our knowledge, never been explored on an empirical basis. Using detailed LEED for Belgium, we find a hump …-shaped relationship between (conditional) wage dispersion and firm productivity. This result suggests that up to (beyond) a certain level …

nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth. …