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 …

We study how workers' wages respond to TFP-driven innovations in firms' labor productivity. Using unique data with … of physical (as opposed to revenue) TFP to instrument labor productivity in the wage equations. We find that the reaction … of wages to sectoral labor productivity is almost three times larger than the response to pure idiosyncratic (firm …

the cost and productivity effects, this specification is integrated into a flexible neoclassical cost function. The …, these cost savings can be very large. The estimates of productivity effects are also positive, albeit rather small. …

, innovation output and productivity, we find to a very large extent a common cross-country story for knowledge intensive … number of national firm level studies on the innovation-productivity link have been conducted using new internationally … observations from Germany and Sweden. Applying a knowledge production function that gives the relationship between innovation input …

markets. We use a dynamic structural model to estimate retail productivity in a local market setting. In particular, we … provide a general strategy of how to measure the causal effect of entry of large stores on productivity separate from demand … in Sweden, we find that large entrants force low productivity stores to exit and surviving stores to increase their …

business processes around IT capital can thereby boost productivity growth. The aim of this study is to empirically examine how … firm productivity growth is affected by organizational changes and investments in IT using a Difference … total factor productivity growth for firms that invested above median in IT and at the same time undertook organizational …

We discuss a model for analyzing and measuring workers' health and psychosocial work-environment on firm productivity …. Productivity is measured through the Malmquist productivity index approach using Data Envelopment Analysis. A novel component of … two variables are modeled as latent or unobserved variables using Item Response Theory. Changes over time in productivity …

about the mechanisms through which the association arises. Using rich and unique data on 450,000 Swedish men enlisting for …