We analyse the impact of innovation activity and product and labour market institutions on multi-factor productivity in … convergence in productivity levels within most industries across OECD countries. Convergence is however stronger in services than … of innovation activity (proxied by R&D expenditure) on productivity depends on market structure and technological …

productivity growth. …

This paper compares two alternative growth paths, assessing the effects on productivity of specialisation in natural … exports either of natural resources or of technological products, and compare their role in productivity growth by GMM … estimation of a conditional convergence model. In general, reliance on natural resource exports slows growth, but we find that …

This paper assesses the implications of past and ongoing reforms in OECD product markets for the labour productivity …) and multi-factor productivity. We focus on the effects of policies aimed at strengthening private governance (e.g. through …-competitive reforms tend to increase both investment and multifactor productivity and, through both these channels, they can lead to …

Total Factor Productivity with Solow and Hall and Jones methods. The data show an overall process of convergence, but it was …

In this paper we emphasize the contribution of technical change, broadly defined, towards productivity growth in … excessively focused on physical capital investments determining productivity differentials, which consequently led to an …

the other hand, is the major force leading to convergence in productivity due to the effect of the diffusion of technology … convergence in productivity levels. The structural model is then tested for a set of OECD countries over the period 1965 to 1994 …

This paper examines the direct effects of corporate tax on firm productivity along with the interaction effects of tax … policy and R&D activity on productivity at firm level for over 13,062 firms during 2004-2011. Our main findings are first …, that there is evidence for productivity convergence and we find that there is a positive robust relationship between R …