Migration policies need to consider how immigration affects investment behavior and productivity, and how these effects … vary with the type of migration. College-educated immigrants may do more to stimulate foreign direct investment and … research and development than low-skilled immigrants, and productivity effects would be expected to be highest for immigrants …

productivity in services, but only ICT affects productivity in manufacturing. The absence of investment in ICT is associated with …Several studies have highlighted information and communications technology (ICT) as a driver of firm productivity in …, is scarce. This paper analyzes the determinants of investment in ICT at the firm level and how investments in ICT …

/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 …

Migration policies need to consider how immigration affects investment behavior and productivity, and how these effects … vary with the type of migration. College-educated immigrants may do more to stimulate foreign direct investment and … research and development than low-skilled immigrants, and productivity effects would be expected to be highest for immigrants …