Does publicly-financed R&D spill over to private sector productivity growth? We document a robust correlation between … UK public-sector financed R&D disbursed via research councils and market sector total factor productivity growth. …

real total factor productivity. The growth accounting indicates that the substantial industrial reforms in China have led … to productivity growth. Energy and capital are also important factors driving China's industrial growth. Productivity …

effect of age/gender on productivity (value added per worker), total labour costs and gross profits. We take advantage of the …'s productivity and employability disadvantage, on the contrary. This is not good news for older women's employability and calls for … policy interventions in the Belgian private economy aimed at combating women's decline of productivity with age and/or better …

' productivity through more efficient use of capital and labor. Acquirers reduce capital expenditures, wages, and employment in … industries with better investment opportunities. Moreover, changes in productivity help explain the merging firms' announcement … returns. The combined announcement returns are driven by improvements in target's productivity. Targets with greater …

increase in aggregate total factor productivity (TFP). This paper attempts to explain these facts by modeling the creation and … destruction of jobs in the presence of heterogeneity in firm productivity and frictional credit and labor markets. The aggregate … level of TFP is determined by both the underlying distribution of firm productivity and the structures of the credit and …

economies. The new methodology is used to investigate the causes of stagnating productivity growth in EU business services. The …