productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact …

This paper studies the effect of R&D spillovers on R&D spending and productivity in a sample of German manufacturing … racing phenomena. Moreover, in high-technology industries spillovers have a productivity-enhancing effect in addition to …

Productivity growth has been slow in many continental European countries over the last few decades, especially in … product market competition experience higher rates of productivity growth. We also find weak evidence for the notion that in … Germany's bank-based system of internal control, ownership concentration is harmful for productivity growth. …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

productivity but the combination of IT and decentralization does not yield a productivity premium. Contrarily, for the sample of … larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that …

foreign countries) on various firm outcomes (domestic employment, production, and productivity). It uses data from the … destroyed/created due to offshoring. Moreover, we do not find an effect on labour productivity, since the negative effect on …

productivity performance of firms from a catching-up country (Poland) and a leader economy (Germany). Domestic owned firms are less …, the foreign ownership productivity premium decreases, leading to productivity catching up between foreign and domestic … firms' productivity performance is more stable along the GVC distribution. …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …