study the effect high skill immigration on productivity. Using a unique data set on manufacturing firms, I investigate … directly whether firms and industries with a higher concentration of immigrants experienced increases in productivity. The … analysis finds no correlation between immigrant concentration and productivity at the firm level in cross-sectional and pooled …

We examine the links between innovation investment, innovation output and productivity in service enterprises. For this … estimate an augmented structural model which links innovation inputs, innovation outputs and productivity. Our estimates … suggest that innovation in service enterprises was linked to higher productivity. In all three countries analysed, amongst the …

In medieval times, most people identified with religious values and aggregate income and productivity grew at glacier … speed. In the 20th century, religion played a much lesser role in daily life and income and productivity grew at high and … worldly pleasures and aggregate productivity takes off. An extension of the basic model investigates the Protestant …

between wage/productivity differentials and the firm's labor composition in terms of part-time and sex. Findings suggest that … lower wages for women, relatively higher productivity for part-timers). Interactions between gender and part-time suggest … that the positive productivity effect is driven by male part-timers working more than 25 hours, whereas the share of female …