US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendousincreases in post-1995 trend growth … thesource of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is noempirical evidence on the influence … Transport, were found to haveexperienced strong productivity growth via ICT-skill complementarities. These findingsshed light on …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …

This paper assess determinants of productivity gaps between firms in the European transition countries and regions and … the role of capital deepening in productivity catch-up, as well as the case that the gaps in labour productivity are most …

We use data on Austrian firms and employees to estimate the effects of employer-provided training on productivity … general, we find a robust positive elasticity of training on productivity of about 0.04. In-house training is more effective …

better at multitasking. Women suffer as much as men when forced to multitask and are actually less inclined to multitask when …

Several firm-related aspects of employee productivity are analyzed using GSOEP data. The basic premise is that, as a …

-employee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

-emplyee data from Portugal. Using dynamic panel data methods, we quantify a firm-specific productivity term for each firm, and we …

The paper concentrates on the question whether the low level of productivity in East Germany can be explained by … younger cohorts. This impedes a fast convergence in productivity between East and West Germany. …

During the second part of the 1990s, the Israeli economy experienced a surge in labor productivity and total factor … productivity, which was driven primarily by the manufacturing sector. This surge in productivity coincided with the full absorption … concentration of immigrants experienced increases in productivity. The analysis shows that there is no correlation between immigrant …