Establishment Panel from the Institute for Employment Research. The major results are: productivity and investments are positively … correlated with working time accounts. No significant effects of working time accounts can be detected on wages and on operating …

Positive assortative matching implies that high productivity workers and firms match together. However, there is almost …

bargaining agreements works councils are more likely to be engaged in productivity enhancing activities and less engaged in rent … empirical analysis confirms this hypothesis. The presence of works councils exerts a positive impact on productivity within the … works councils has a positive effect on wages within the uncovered industrial relations regime but not to the same degree …

The paper presents a detailed industry-level productivity analysis (52 industries) for the effects of industry … industry structure and productivity growth of an industry. The analysis reveals positive effects of vertically disintegrated … analysis is the recently collected productivity database for Germany. The Ifo Productivity Database, which is unique due to its …

US labor productivity in ICT-skill intensive industries experienced tremendous increases in post-1995 trend growth … the source of industry productivity growth in German ICT-skill intensive sectors, there is no empirical evidence on the … influence of ICT-skill complementarities; rather was productivity growth of German Motor Vehicles & Other Transports driven by …