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 …

This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …

that over time, either firms learn about worker productivity but productivity remains fixed or workers' productivities … importance. We derive a dynamic model of learning and productivity that nests both models and allows them to coexist. We estimate … correlates of productivity, as opposed to the empirical evidence on employer learning which uses one fixed measure. Second, we …

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 …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany?s bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large …-2008, for a total of 16,079 observations. Our main findings can be summarised as follows: knowledge stock has a significant … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent …

This paper examines Total Factor Productivity (TFP) and knowledge flows, using international patent data. The result is …-industry innovation enhances domestic productivity, and domestic between industry innovations are productivity enhancing. However, foreign …-sourced between-industry innovation has a negative effect on domestic productivity. This highlights the dual aspect of patents as a …

We implement an endogeneous switching-regression model for labour productivity and firms' decision to use business …-to-business (B2B) e-commerce. Our approach allows B2B usage to affect any parameter of the labour productivity equation and to …-investment and produce significantly more efficiently than firms that do not use B2B. Firms' labour productivity is enhanced by using …

the other hand, previous empirical studies show that exporting does not necessarily improve productivity. One possible … status and the growth of its labour productivity, using the firms' export status as a binary treatment variable and comparing …'s export-sales ratio and its labour productivity growth rate. We find that there is a causal effect of firms' export activities …