-level Community Innovation Survey (CIS) data set to consider the economy in the period preceding the collapse of its financial system …. We examine the linkage between the crisis and innovativeness from the perspective of technical efficiency by means of the … too small to be considered technically efficient, while services firms typically use excessive resources in their …

deepening and innovation for productivity. We employ a model that takes into account that innovation and ICT use may be … productivity appears to be of the same order of magnitude in the two countries. However, the direct impacts of innovation on multi …Using panel data for German and Dutch firms from the services sector, this paper analyses the importance of ICT capital …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

relationships between corporate competitiveness strategy, innovation, efficiency, productivity growth and outsourcing to be … analysis. Third, stochastic frontier production function and factor productivity analysis are used to estimate the efficiency … and factor productivity growth at the firm level. Fourth, the causal relationships between the five variables of interest …

productivity across Ghana and South Korea. The labour productivity differentials across these firms exceed those implied by macro … show that if we allow for a non-linear effect of education on output the whole of the average productivity differences …

This paper serves as another complementary link in a chain of a rather limited number of investigations in the R&D-innovation-productivity … relationship within service industries. Innovation has been found to be a major contributor to productivity growth in manufacturing … evidence that the reported weak rate of productivity growth in knowledge intensive services can be explained by a low …

The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but … export of services is less than that of the People's Republic of China, and exports are competitive in only a few services … and are concentrated in a few markets. Most of the poor in India do not have access to basic services such as healthcare …

knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a ‘Solovian zone’ where wages increase with … productivity, to a ‘Marxian’ zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given … creativity is more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from …

sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Y et, this positive trend in productivity should …Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across …

sectors would enable emerging countries to overcome the middle-income trap. Yet, this positive trend in productivity should …Wages and productivity represent two of the most relevant variables to consider in economic development. Given the low … productivity levels that emerging countries reveal, the accumulation of productive capabilities and a narrower dispersion across …