, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

United Kingdom, in comparison with the USA. Firstly we analyze the role of productivity in the explanation of real wages … relationship between wages, productivity and human capital in 5 European Union countries: France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the …, secondly we present a comparative study of the evolution of wages and productivity during the period 1985-2005, and thirdly we …

The paper addresses the link between productivity and labour mobility. The hypothesis tested is that technology is … diffused within the new environment creating spillovers and leading to productivity improvements. The empirical analysis is … considerable beneficial effects on industry productivity. Possible endogeneity problems related to labour mobility are tackled by …

finding is that manufacturing shows little evidence of either labor productivity or multifactor productivity convergence … convergence results, the paper introduces a new measure of multifactor productivity which avoids many problems inherent to … traditional measures of total factor productivity when comparing productivity levels. The lack of convergence in manufacturing is …

This paper assess determinants of productivity gaps between firms in the European transition countries and regions and … related research with respect to a comparison of formal qualification between East and West. Furthermore, the analysis was … for the role of capital deepening in productivity catch-up, as well as the case that the gaps in labour productivity are …

nearly one third of euro area labour productivity growth. The results point to a significant decline in the contribution of … total factor productivity to euro area growth …

firm-related characteristics (e.g., capital intensity, productivity) contribute significantly. However, considerable wage …