effects of international co-operative R&D on short term productivity gains among European manufacturing firms and to clarify … symmetric Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) increase productivity to a greater extent than RJVs between asymmetric firms. The …

This paper investigates the relative labor productivity level for total manufacturing in Germany, Sweden and the US for … the period 1980-2001. The paper also presents estimates of labor productivity levels for 18 different manufacturing … industries for the period 1993-2000. The results show that the Swedish manufacturing productivity caught up with German and US …

and their productivity. Recent work suggests that these calculations should treat workers of different skill levels as … imperfect substitutes. However, under this approach, it has been challenging to compute skill-specific productivity levels for a … data set on labor force composition to construct measures of productivity for workers in three distinct skill categories …

A growing number of studies identify a generalized slowdown in labor productivity growth. The very existence of the … of the observed trends. We posit that the composition of aggregate productivity matters. In a nutshell, we make the … analysis of productivity growth slowdown more fine-grained by shifting the focus to the industry level, considering that the …

problematic. When they use labor productivity growth as a proxy for technical progress, their regressions are quasi …-accounting identities that omit one variable of the identity. Consequently, the coefficient of labor productivity growth suffers from … omitted-variable bias, where the omitted variable is known. The use of total factor productivity (TFP) growth as a proxy for …

find no evidence that technical change (proxied by the growth of productivity) reduces employment growth. We demonstrate … productivity growth suffers from omitted-variable bias. As the omitted variable is known, we can have a good idea of what the …