Productivity in Russia has fallen steadily over the past 15 years. This paper explores micro-level data to understand … the contribution of individual firms to aggregate productivity. Overall, firm-level data corroborate the decline in … aggregate productivity and a widening productivity gap against several European countries. They also show that the gap between …

productivity performance of large European R&D Multinational Enterprises (MNEs). Based on the worldwide subsidiaries of these firms … from globalisation on firms’ R&D productivity, especially in the US, while a negative impact for industrial diversification …

productivity. We examine these claims. Non-parametric plots and regressions show a robust positive association between the … manufacturing sector and Business R&D expenditures (BERD), while the relationship between manufacturing and exports or productivity …

productivity. The effects are investigated both in isolation and in conjunction with the impact of ICT maturity on microdata in six … proportion of ICT-intensive human capital boosts productivity. This seems to confirm the case in favour of recruitment of highly …

by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is used on a unique unbalanced longitudinal … firms. From a policy perspective, the results of this study suggest that - if the aim is to leverage firms' productivity … other hand, corporate R&D in the low-tech sector is found to have a minor effect in explaining productivity. Instead …

This report contains an empirical analysis of the productivity and sustainability performance of different types of … farms in thirteen countries. Farm productivity performance is measured through estimates of average productivity levels and … structure, innovation of operations, individual characteristics as well as farm location. Productivity performance by farm …