This paper examines how measurement problems affect international comparisons of labour productivity. It suggests that these measurement problems do not significantly affect the assessment of aggregate productivity patterns in the OECD area. However, these problems do influence the more detailed...

Innovationen werden gemeinhin als wichtiges Instrument für Produktivitätssteigerungen angesehen. Auch wenn zuletzt scheinbar der Schrumpfungsprozess der ostdeutschen Spitzentechnologie gestoppt ist, so ist die Industrie der neuen Länder weiterhin vorwiegend durch nicht FuE-intensive Branchen...

The article presents first some theoretical considerations about the connection between productivity and networking activities of enterprises. By operationalizing networks as an agglomeration of firms in a specific region, it is argued with respect to the East German economy that such networks...

In dieser Artikelserie werden die Ergebnisse einer interdisziplinären Tagung beim IWH im November 1997 zu den Determinanten der Produktivitätslücke zusammengefasst. Behandelt werden in diesem zweiten Teil die Themen Absatzwirtschaftliche Schwachpunkte (Vortrag von Klaus-Dieter Schmidt, IfW...

After steady employment growth since the 1990s, Spain has experienced the sharpest increase in unemployment among OECD countries during the crisis, amplified by structural problems of the labour market. Very high de facto severance payment of permanent contracts has resulted in a rigid dual...

In this paper the recently updated product market regulation (PMR) indicators are extended to a larger set of countries including several non-OECD members. It investigates regulatory patterns in this extended set of countries as compared to the OECD countries and analyses the link between...