de- veloped countries but little is known of their causal effect on productivity. A large linked employer-employee panel … productivity effect of works councils. …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

We use UK micro data to explore whether planning regulation reduced UK retailing productivity growth between 1997 and … which increased the costs of opening large stores. This might have caused a slowdown in productivity growth if firms (a … productivity works out at about £80,000 per small chain supermarket store. …

domestic productivity. Our results display some heterogeneity across industries and types of acquisitions, suggesting a …

are characterized by higher productivity levels than exporters on average, the productivity ranking predicted by Helpman …

productivity. This paper is part of a smaller literature on the effects of training on direct measures of industrial productivity …. We analyse a panel of British industries between 1983 and 1996. Training information (and other individual productivity … use a variety of panel data techniques (including system GMM) to argue that training significantly boosts productivity …

This paper examines the causal relationship between foreign mergers and acquisitions and firm productivity in the UK … positive aggregate effects on labor productivity due to capital deepening but not due to changes in TFP. …

In order to assess the productivity effects of information and communication technologies (ICT), regressions based on …?GMM estimator yields evidence for significant productivity effects of ICT which are substantially smaller though than those …

productivity, by altering the makeup of plants that populate the market. An appreciation of the local currency increases the level … structural model that captures the effect of plantlevel productivity and real exchange rate fluctuations on plant entry and exit … decisions in the Canadian agricultural implements industry, and how this, in turn, affects aggregate productivity. The model …

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …