on a firm's productivity and what the consequences are for a firm's profits. …

to influence productivity. To this end we estimate plant-level production functions augmented by regional characteristics …

Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of … longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … and firm-level productivity in Germany. In our preferred TFP estimates only a small fraction of this correlation is …

productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …

This paper examines the links between innovation and productivity in service enterprises. For this purpose, we use … structural model. Our results indicate that innovation in service enterprises is linked to higher productivity. In all three … countries analysed, among the innovation types that we consider, the strongest link between innovation and productivity was …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

In this paper, we estimate the causal effect of ambient air pollution on individuals' productivity by using panel data … and players. Our analysis shows negative and non-linear effects of air pollution on short-run productivity. We further …

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 …