In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier … speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and … worldly pleasures and aggregate productivity takes off. An extension of the basic model investigates the Protestant …

This paper focuses on investment in research and development as a factor of labour productivity and economic growth … productivity (expressed in the number of hours worked) based on selected data for EU Member States in the period 1995-2013. A … development (2.85% of EU GDP) maximising productivity (per hour of work) was determined based on the examined data. In accordance …

productivity improvements not within sectors but within value chains. It allows judging in a better way to what extent more or … result is that more than half of the productivity gains related to ICT capital deepening for manufactured goods are … sectoral growth in total factor productivity (TFP) in the ICT sector contributes only moderately to TFP growth in non-ICT value …

hiring and firing of workers, labour reallocation and productivity growth. It also reviews how workers affected by labour … labour market flows and these flows, in turn, have significant impacts on productivity growth. At the same time, the evidence …

Studies regarding the migrants' impact upon performance variables and in particular upon productivity growth - which is … industries and regions and output and productivity growth. We do obtain robust results with respect to the positive impact of the … - on the relationship between productivity growth and the shares of migrants and of high-skilled migrants in overall …

The paper surveys the literature on the effects of finance on productivity growth. In both the theoretical and … growth. Clearer positive effects emerge when considering growth channels related to productivity dynamics, with the estimated …