energy productivity and overall productivity in the American economy in the 1920s. This view was challenged by Nicholas and … Moser (2004) based on patent statistics. We argue that other methods are required for studying productivity effects and … propose cointegration analyses. Wedemonstrate a clear impact from electrification on energy productivity in those broad …

effect of electricity on energy productivity in Swedish industry 1930-1990. Electricity augmented energy productivity in … those industrial branches that used electricity for multiple purposes. This productivity effect goes beyond “book …

quality-adjusted-patents and growth in value added or labour productivity. …

Changes in labor productivity have been a source of puzzlement and paradoxical results for economists. We suggest that … percent of all the variations in labor productivity. Also, our estimation method and our results suggest that conventional …

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. …