industry, we revisit the construction produc-tivity puzzle by analyzing the construction value chains of 12 European countries … productivity con-tributions to the construction industry and the rest of the value chain, and show that the traditional focus on … other industries, and the productivi-ty growth in the construction value chains has, for the most part, been seen in them …

) within Europe. However, along with the internationalization of Korean firms, the motives and patterns for direct investments … MNEs within Europe are analyzed. The main findings indicate that Germany is considered more important to automobile …

Korea, Mexico and Poland. Using industry-level data, we show that i) technology diffusion and productivity gains tend to be … regional: Korea (Mexico) (Poland) benefits mainly from trade with Japan (North America) (the EU); and ii) the dynamic version … of the ?natural trading partners? hypothesis seems to hold for Korea and Mexico though not necessarily for Poland. …

consistently that the introduction of a PSP or a TIP will lead to a significant increase in productivity (about 10 percent) whereas … no such evidence found for ESOPs or SOPs. We also find that the productivity payoff appears to be more long-lasting for … complements in their productivity effects. …

modernization investments, including ICT. The second part of the paper presents evidence on firms' productivity paths, and the … heterogeneity in productivity among relatively similar firms. I also present selected evidence of these firms' investments in … specific areas and how they affected their productivity. The observation of important intra-industry differences across …

raising total-factor-productivity. …

factor productivity in a large sample of Italian firms. By splitting the full sample on the basis of the ex-ante likelihood … shocks, provided they affect all firms randomly. Both market power and total factor productivity are estimated by applying …" firms a positive transitory shock to productivity growth rates is observed immediately after the announcement of the reform …

Industry 4.0 and robots are said to speed up productivity thereby inducing a 'quantum leap' towards the 'end of work … any responsibility to the new risks related to the digital revolution. This paper argues that the productivity leap …

The paper investigates the impact that the multinational scope of firms' activities can have on their productivity …, we propose an econometric model based on an R&D and a productivity equation, which are both allowed to depend on … multinationality. With this model we can disentangle the direct and indirect effects of multinationality on productivity appropriately …

Productivity across European regions is related to three types of networks that mediate R&D-related knowledge … co-patenting relations appear to affect local productivity directly, regions that link up to innovative leader regions … via imports gain in productivity only when they have relatively high levels of human capital and absorptive capacity. From …