Brazil, Russia, India and China (BRIC) or non-US OECD countries. We study the mobility, retention and productivity of 5 … largely by the decrease in public sector scientists. Paralleling this, their innovative productivity growth has also slowed …

Linked employer-employee data from New Zealand is used to study the relationship between a firm's productivity growth … relationship between productivity growth and hiring is compared to the predictions implied by two different channels: worker … quality and knowledge spillover. Although it is not possible to identify a causal relationship, the productivity of a worker …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

The aim of this paper is to investigate the productivity impact of business visits, relative to traditional drivers of … productivity enhancement, namely capital formation and R&D. To carry out the analysis, we combine unique and novel data on business … results suggest that mobility through business visits is an effective mechanism to improve productivity. The estimated effect …

Visits as a productivity enhancing channel of technology transfer. Our analysis is based on a unique database on business … evidence that BVs contribute to fostering labour productivity in a significant way. While this is consistent with what found by … returns, being more crucial in those sectors characterized by less mobility and by lower productivity performances. …

employees’ use of mobile internet access improves firms’ labour productivity. Our data set contains 2143 German firms and refers … econometric analysis shows that firms’ labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile … internet access. Our instrumental variables approach reveals that mobile internet use does cause higher labour productivity. …

employees' use of mobile internet access improves firms' labour productivity. Our data set comprises 2460 German firms and … analysis shows that firms' labour productivity significantly increases with the share of employees with mobile internet access …. However, an instrumental variable approach reveals that mobile internet use does not cause higher labour productivity. …

for a central claim in economic geography: social network density has positive effect on regional productivity growth. The …