Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …

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 …

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 …

Effects of R&D investment on frim/industry productivity have been investigated widely thanks to pioneering …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

This paper explores the contribution of structural change and the skill upgrading of the labour force to productivity …. Our growth decomposition based on an original database we built for Tunisia and Turkey shows that productivity is mainly … explained by intra-industry changes during the import substitution period. Second, we show that this productivity increase has …

measures perform well in regression analysis explaining productivity across OECD countries and over time. In OECD samples …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …