paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital … intensity, and an indirect effect of belonging to a sector with high digital intensity. The firm-level productivity premium of …

higher productivity and growth. In light of the importance of skills for fostering labour productivity, this paper examines …

-convergence trap" long before the euro years. We also provide stylised facts on: (i) the central role of total factor productivity in …

capita gross domestic product could be offset by increases in productivity. However, for many regions, productivity growth … years. One reason for this is that ageing also has a direct negative impact on productivity growth, with the effect being … affected by demographic change, is a more solid driver of productivity growth. Finally, ageing seems to be associated with a …

Productivity is the ultimate driver of sustainable increases in living standards. While Ireland is a high productivity … country, it has not been immune from the global productivity slowdown, with the pace of growth on a downward trend throughout … the 2000s. Little research has been carried out as to the determinants behind the productivity slowdown in Ireland, and …