barriers and better innovation policies would boost productivity. Effective intergovernmental coordination bodies and a well … to achieving a truly single market limit productivity growth of regions, including the most advanced. Reducing regulatory …

Abstract: To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupation based measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and non …

productivity and innovation. Despite these findings, most Greek companies do not seem convinced of the usefulness of OJT. They …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more …

from a productivity acceleration linked to a catch-up of the US ICT diffusion level. And they could benefit, without any … delay with the US, from the possible ICT productivity growth second wave. …

This paper proposes to explain the productivity growth slowdown with the poaching of disruptive inventors by firms … these inventors threaten with their research. I build an endogenous growth model with incremental and disruptive innovation … disruptive innovations to confirm the main features of the model: Disruptions increase future research productivity, hurt …

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first … STEM-skill intensive and are associated with innovation, as well as with technology adoption, management, and diffusion …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this …

In this chapter by Janice Stein warns about the dangers of adopting a narrow conception of productivity and efficiency … efficiency or productivity of a public service requires a measurement of the value or utility generated by the service. However … ironically undermined the effectiveness and productivity of the public and voluntary sectors. She illustrates the perverse …

In this chapter, Graves and Jenkins explore the attitudes of Canadians to productivity. The distinction between our … Graves and Jenkins data is relatively aware of the terms of the productivity debate. Canadians appear to have a broadly … optimistic view of the economy, but give the country only a lukewarm overall rating of its productivity. Moreover, although …

Both labour and total factor productivity growth in the total and residential construction sectors in Canada have been … negative over the past two decades. This report provides a detailed examination of output, employment, and productivity trends … reference to measurement issues and technical change; discusses the micro- and macro-economic environment affecting productivity …