Effects of R&D investment on frim/industry productivity have been investigated widely thanks to pioneering …

Motivated by the recent reversal in labor productivity growth, this paper is analyzing the relationship between R …&D expenditures and productivity. Time series data of the German manufacturing industry is used to estimate a variable cost function … expenditures were also declining, the contribution of R&D to productivity growth is currently stagnating at the lowest level since …

of a technique depends on both the productivity embodied in the technique and the cost of the particular input; when … productivity depends on whether the lower cost firms are the important suppliers of inputs. When the share of intermediate goods in … production is high, the lower cost firms are selected as suppliers more frequently. This raises aggregate productivity and also …

percent for total factor productivity. Overall, the distortions explain about 67 percent of the variation in income per worker …

We study how total factor productivity (TFP), energy prices, and the Great Moderation are linked. First we estimate a … negatively affected productivity. This spillover has since disappeared. Second, we show that within the framework of a dynamic … stochastic general equilibrium model, the disappearance of this energy-productivity spillover generates the significantly lower …

The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export … Difference in Differences, are used to calculate productivity improvements from entering into international trade. These …

This paper analyses how international outsourcing affects plant productivity, with the major contribution lying in the …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 … productivity. A one percentage point increase in training is associated with an increase in value added per hour of about 0.6% and …

establishments that are always foreign-owned have significantly higher labour productivity than those that remain under domestic … ownership. In addition, labour productivity improves faster over time and faster with age in foreign-owned establishments. The … difference in labour productivity is matched by an equivalent difference in levels of investment per employee. Establishments …