on work arrangements in key industries. It is complemented by the Productivity Commission's report, International …

characteristics of these spatial platforms for measuring rural economic performance are explored through plant level productivity data … city regions. The city-region platform makes the rural productivity performance look worse than it really is but since 2000 …, rural districts have not been charged with pursuing productivity objectives anyway. …

technology. Hiring highly skilled workers is initially costly to firms but is productivity-enhancing in the long run. …

productivity at company-level. It is based on a conceptual study aiming to understand the relationship as well as two statistical … the results of intellectual capital measures and productivity measures are examined. The conceptual study suggests that … the company-level relationship between IC and productivity is a complex and case-specific phenomenon. The biggest problems …

productivity change; when expenditure on consumer durables is recorded as capital investment. The capitalization of consumer … durables impacts both the levels and growth rates of the capital stock, productivity and GDP. Our growth accounting … productivity growth in 1995-2004. ICTŽs impacts were larger, i.e., one-fifth of GVA growth and one-sixth of labour productivity …

acquisition FDI with respect to productivity. The analysis is performed using a panel of firm data covering the entire Swedish … productivity than domestic firms. The stock of firm-specific knowledge, measured by R&D, also emerges as important. Consistent with … Dunning’s ownership-location-internalization (OLI) paradigm, the results suggest that there is no productivity differential …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. …

recent empirical work on the impact of organizational capital on firm productivity and workers’ wages. We then discuss in …

In this article, we estimate age based wage and productivity differentials using linked employer-employee Canadian data … also depend on age. Results show concave age-wage and age-productivity profiles. Wage-productivity comparisons show that … the productivity of workers aged 55 and more with at least an undergraduate degree is lower than their wages. For other …

productivity or not. It distinguishes between establishments that are covered by collective bargaining or not. Results from a … framework that point to high positive effects of works councils on productivity. …