Productivity of the Finnish private sector decreased during the financial crisis of 2008-2009 and, since then …, productivity growth has not reached the level preceding the crisis. A key factor underlying productivity growth is R&D. The … worthwhile considering whether changes in productivity effects of R&D, instead of changes in volumes of R&D inputs, may explain …

domestic labor force at the sector-level. In order to better elucidate the offshoring employment relationship, this paper … condition where firms pay a real wage that exceeds the market clearing level and varies with productivity; (ii) an open economy … production-side shock that changes firms' offshoring decision can influence the local economy and its labor market. …

important gap in most empirical studies of establishment-level productivity is the limited information about workers …' characteristics and their tasks. Skill-adjusted labor input measures have been shown to be important for aggregate productivity …-access establishment-level productivity dataset created by the BLS-Census Bureau Collaborative Micro-productivity Project. We take a first …

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … industries leads to a sizable drop of the productivity effects, halving the effect size for labor productivity and insignificant … controlling for demographic workforce characteristics is essential for obtaining significant labor productivity effects and leads …

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … workforce variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill …

In a seminal paper Graetz and Michaels (2018) find that robots increase labor productivity and TFP, lower output prices … variables reestablishes the productivity effects, but still rejects positive wage effects and skill-biased technological change …

manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however … productivity using firm-level data. First, a broader definition of innovation input is used in which research and development is …

The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that … is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural … account, that: i) labor productivity in most manufacturing sectors is significantly lower; ii) average TFP differs …

The study focuses on the question of whether productivity estimates are biased due to the emergence of a new input that … is usually omitted: temporary agency worker (TAW). The study analyzes labor productivity and TFP by means of a structural … account, that: i) labor productivity in most manufacturing sectors is significantly lower; ii) average TFP differs …

Following reunification, productivity in eastern Germany grew rapidly. A strong industrial sector is key to a thriving … German economy. However, the narrowing of the industrial productivity gap between eastern and western Germany has come to a … regions in eastern and western Germany, the productivity gap shrinks. In both eastern German cities as well as rural areas …