). Significant increase in productivity wheat plants in both vegetative as well as field experiments has been found. It has been …

economy - can paradoxically increase the productivity of an economy where productivity is a function of the average level of … drain on productivity occurs when successful emigration is not a certainty and when the increase in human capital …

This paper examines the relationship between competition, innovation and productivity for the Netherlands. We use … industry level. We find strong evidence for a positive impact of competition on Total Factor Productivity (TFP) at the industry …, at least for manufacturing industries. Yet, our results indicate that a negative effect of competition on productivity …

This paper examines the role for tax policies in productivity-shock driven economies with \catching …

This study investigates the impact of corporate governance and product market competition on total factor productivity … growth in Germany and the UK.For Germany, the prototype of a bank-based governance system, productivity grows faster in firms … beneficial impact. Furthermore, the importance of the German creditors (mostly banks) for productivity growth is particularly …

In this paper, a worker's productivity is assumed to depend on his own quality and on the average quality of other …