The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a … findings can be summarised along the following lines: knowledge stock has a significant positive impact on a firm …'s productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.125; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in …

labour-productivity growth in the US and larger countries of the EU. The continental West-European countries show a … from intangibles, and also larger multi-factor productivity (MFP) growth rates related to the restructuring of those …

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 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. …

The literature has pointed to different causes to explain the productivity gap between Europe and United States in the … last decades. This paper tests the hypothesis that the lower European productivity performance in comparison with the US …&D investment into productivity gains. The proposed microeconometric estimates are based on a unique longitudinal database covering …

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 …

In this paper we investigate the size of health differences that exist among men in England and the United States and … health gradient differs for men across the two countries in question. There are a several key findings. First, looking across … a wide variety of diagnosed diseases, average health status among mature men is much worse in America compared to …

Looking across many diseases, average health among mature men is much worse in America compared to England. Second …, there exists a steep negative health gradient for men in both countries where men at the bottom of the economic hierarchy … or individual self-reports. In contrast to these disease based measures, health of American men appears to be superior to …

that measures of subjective well-being indicate that women's happiness has declined both absolutely and relative to men … a gender gap in happiness in which women in the 1970s typically reported higher subjective well-being than did men …. These declines have continued and a new gender gap is emerging - one with higher subjective well-being for men. …