We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

directions since then: Italy privatized its publicly-owned banks while Germany has maintained a large share of state … activities have affected banks' productivity in the period 1994-2004, differentiating between technical change, efficiency change … and scale economies. We find that privatized banks experienced a significant increase in productivity, especially if they …

and productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of … consumer durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICT's impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants to the United States since 1965 appear to have made a very …

similar to the patterns found among Jews born in the United States. Soviet Jewish immigrants appear to have made a very …

and women, compared to non-Jews, with additional analyses of earnings, self-employment, and wealth. The Jews in Colonial … of most contemporary American Jews. Starting in operative, craft and laborer jobs in small scale manufacturing or in …. American Jews, from the earliest period to the present, have had high rates of self-employment compared to the non-farm white …

firm's ability to improve its productivity growth and profitability. The case study reported here concerns the … biotechnology industry in Italy, whose firms, by definition, have Intellectual Property (IP) activities in their portfolios. For … in which the dependent variable is alternatively (labor) productivity growth and profitability. Our findings show that …

linking this to productivity, which turns out to be important. The paper also provides an example of modeling productivity … linkages to openness and domestic regulation, with an applied CGE model of Italy. This illustrates cross-sector linkages and …

The paper analyses the recent supply side developments in France, Germany, and Italy by employing a non … the pronounced worsening of total factor productivity. The paper is rounded out by estimates of some measures of wage …