besondere Rolle der Digitalisierung in diesem Kontext. …Labour productivity is a measure of an economy's performance, and its development is a major determinant of material … prosperity. In view of this, the slowing trend growth of labour productivity in many countries is a challenge that should not be …

This paper presents for the first time panel evidence on the productivity effects of training intensity and different … the share of trained employees in 1997 is higher, productivity is significantly higher in the period 1997 - 1999. Formal … internal and external courses have the highest positive impact on productivity, self-induced learning and quality circles have …

This paper investigates the relationship between the use of temporary agency work and the user firm's productivity. We … hypothesise that modest use enhances numerical flexibility and thus productivity, while excessive use mirrors lowproductivity … robust hump-shaped relationship between the extent of temporary agency work use and the user firm's productivity, which …

arguably very high, so only productive firms can achieve this (Schroeder et al. 2003). Low productivity firms, by contrast, may … firms we investigate the relationship between firm productivity and the use of export intermediaries. Our estimation results … take simultaneity problems into account and reveal that indeed low productivity firms tend to export through intermediaries. …

We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

Industry - and firm-level research into both innovations and productivity has long been limited to manufacturing. With … their relationship to productivity. Our results show that service firms differ considerably in their innovation strategies …, but that most of those strategies lead to productivity gains. …

The present paper studies the relationship between R&D investment and firm productivity growth by explicitly accounting … for non-linearities in the R&D-productivity relationship and inter-sectoral firm heterogeneity. In order to address these …. Our results suggest that: (i) R&D investment increases firm productivity with an average elasticity of 0.15; (ii) the …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …

This paper presents the first hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and firm productivity …