a productivity equation. We find that ICT is an im-portant driver of innovation in both manufacturing and services …Many empirical studies have confirmed the positive impact of innovation on productivity at the firm level. The focus … tends to be either on R&D driven techno-logical innovation on the one hand, or on organisational changes complemented by ICT …

productivity growth in the United States after 1995. In this article, Dale W. Jorgenson of Harvard University, Mun S. Ho from … resurgence in the United States, reflecting both an productivity acceleration and greater hours worked and project U.S. output … growth, and comment on lessons for Canada. They conclude that the U.S. productivity revival is likely to remain intact for …

Major European countries, unlike the United States, did not experience an acceleration in labour productivity growth in … 1980-2000 period. They find that total factor productivity growth picked up considerably in the second half of the 1990s … relative to the first half, but that labour productivity growth actually decelerated. This latter development was related to …

This article, by Ian A. Stewart, is a review of the recently released Industry Canada research volume Productivity … the volume represents an important contribution to the productivity literature in Canada. He points out that data and … the macroeconomic perspective in the analysis of productivity growth. He believes that the golden age of productivity …

This paper studies the effect of R&D spillovers on R&D spending and productivity in a sample of German manufacturing … racing phenomena. Moreover, in high-technology industries spillovers have a productivity-enhancing effect in addition to …

foreign countries) on various firm outcomes (domestic employment, production, and productivity). It uses data from the … International Sourcing Survey (ISS) 2017 for Germany, linked to other firm level data such as business register and ITGS data. First … destroyed/created due to offshoring. Moreover, we do not find an effect on labour productivity, since the negative effect on …

We study the importance of intangible capital (R&D, software, patents) for the measurement of productivity using firm … of input choice and unobserved productivity shocks. We find a positive output elasticity for research and development (R … output production function reduces productivity dispersion (measured by the 90-10 decile range) on average by 3%, in some …

Since the mid 1900’s, economist have come to recognize the role of innovative activity in firms productivity growth …