/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 …

On 12 June and 9 September 2008 the EESC Labour Market Observatory organised two hearings on "Sustainable Productivity …

productivity gains to investment and an incentive plan, we are left with a large unexplained component. Learning by experimentation …We document the evolution of productivity in a steel mini mill with fixed capital, producing an unchanged product with …, or tweaking, seems to be behind the continual and gradual process of productivity growth. The findings suggest that …

SMPEs with positive taxable income increased investment, interest expense and productivity. SMPEs in taxable losses did not …