Stronger productivity growth in the US than the EU over the late 1990s is widely attributed to faster, more widespread …, and we show evidence from microdata that is consistent with this idea. -- ICT ; outsourcing ; productivity …

This paper examines the direct effects of corporate tax on firm productivity along with the interaction effects of tax … policy and R&D activity on productivity at firm level for over 13,062 firms during 2004-2011. Our main findings are first …, that there is evidence for productivity convergence and we find that there is a positive robust relationship between R …

explain most of the well-known differences in aggregate growth rates of labour productivity and employment across these … productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces … of long-run growth may help to better explain differences in employment and productivity growth, in particular if …

/EU productivity gap. We find robust evidence that US firms have a higher capacity to translate R&D into productivity gains (especially … in the high-tech industries), and this contributes to explaining the higher productivity of US firms. Conversely, EU … firms are more likely to achieve productivity gains through capital-embodied technological change at least in medium and low …