develops a theoretical model to analyse the possible effects, and presents an empirical application using productivity data for … productivity growth. As the knowledge transferred through business visits is non-rival, both countries of origin and destination …. -- International labour movements ; face-to-face meetings ; business trips ; growth ; productivity …

Using novel data on value added in Switzerland we propose to use a growth rate decomposition technique, in the spirit …

hand in hand with a reduction in productivity. Another channel would be the concentration of economic activity in sectors … other sectors; further, good governance also boosts relatively more labor productivity in more complex subsectors of … manufacturing. Both effects are strongest among countries whose labor productivity ranks in the second and third quartiles of the …

Ireland and Switzerland. Both economies are small, very open and depend significantly on innovation to maintain competitive … advantage. In recent years, however, R&D and innovation growth in Ireland has been markedly stronger than that in Switzerland … the link between innovation and productivity which involves significant endogeneity issues. Two-stage estimation …