The volume of work on productivity effects of research and development (R&D) investment has expanded significantly … primary studies, we report that the average effect of R&D capital on productivity and the average rate of return on R …-analysis studies. We also report that a range of moderating factors have significant effects on the variation among productivity and …

employee retention as well as employee productivity are significantly related to organizational performance. Recommendations …

’ technical efficiency and then over their productivity. The analysis takes, also, into account other variables that could affect … productivity as industrial sector, or firms’ financial conditions. We use a micro panel data set of Spanish manufacturing firms …

a long run perspective by examining the nature of the relationship between population growth and a plethora of … 2007, we investigate effects of population growth on investment from Granger causality models. Our findings reveal a long …-run positive causal linkage from population growth to only public investment. But for domestic investment, permanent fluctuations …

This study investigates the role of international spillovers in generating productivity gains for a panel of 24 OECD … related to R&D and human capital variables, which contribute significantly to productivity. …

performances, by exploring under what conditions social expenditure is productivity-enhancing or not. Well-designed welfare states …

Johansen and Granger-causality models on data from 1977 to 2007, we investigate long-term effects of population growth on … investment. Our study reinforces the lack of consensus over the impact of demographic change on economic growth. Main findings … are, in the long-run, population growth will: (1) decrease foreign and public investments in Ivory Coast; (2) increase …