signals of productivity for an immigrant than a native-born individual. Using multiple data sets, the paper presents a robust …

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 …

The relation between innovative output from the R&D process and total factor productivity (TFP) in the Swedish …

This paper examines the impact of immigration on labour productivity in Canada. Immigration is a factor that has been … estimate the reduction in labour productivity in Canada (as measured by GDP per worker) that can be attributed to the poor … point post-1990 increase in the Canada-US labour productivity gap. …

The paper explores a novel extension of the R&D-productivity literature. It puts forward an empirical model where … sectoral productivity growth is related to the characteristics of technological regimes and a set of other industry … show, in particular, that sectoral differences in productivity growth in Europe are related to cross-industry differences …

The paper investigates the effects of industry-level competition on firm-level innovation and productivity. We propose … productivity. We test the model on a firm-level panel dataset based on the last three waves of the innovation survey for Norway …

Balochistan—for the period from 1980/81 to 2005/06 to examine inter-provincial differences in productivity growth rates …. Propositions are put forward and examined to explain the superior productivity performance of Punjabi crop producers over those in … Sindh and North-West Frontier Province, and the unusual productivity trends in Balochistan. The major factors relate to …