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 …

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. We maintain, however, that the dramatic acceleration of imports from developing countries has imparted a significant … manufacturing productivity and value added, we implement the bias correction developed by Diewert and Nakamura (2009) to the input … offshoring. We find that from 1997 to 2007 average annual multifactor productivity growth in manufacturing was overstated by 0 …

This paper studies whether NAFTA contributed to the productivity convergence between Mexico and the US. Using data from … productivity and estimation methods, it shows that the productivity gap increased and converged to a higher gap level. Moreover, it … the previous literature. The paper also finds that under NAFTA the industries which have smaller initial productivity gap …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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. …