This paper looks at the channels through which intangible assets affect productivity. The econometric analysis exploits … a new dataset on intangible investment (INTAN-Invest) in conjunction with EUKLEMS productivity estimates for 10 EU …-calculated factor share. These findings suggest investments in knowledge-based capital, i.e., intangible capital, produce productivity …

This paper analyses the evolution and policy drivers of the productivity of farmers' human capital in EU agriculture … Analysis with variable returns to scale, and related to a Malmquist index of total factor productivity and to selected policy …

, R&D investments, and productivity across 12 OECD economies and 17 manufacturing and service industries. Much of the … positive relationship between those cognitive skills and the labour productivity in a country-sector combination. The part of … the cross-country cross-sector variation in labour productivity that can be explained by human capital is remarkably large …

In this paper, labor productivity growth and its impacts are studied at the industry level. The development of … productivity is analyzed in 54 industries in 14 EU countries and in the US between 1979 and 2001. The conclusion of the study is … that the industry structure that leads to fast productivity growth is connected to falling export prices. The relationship …

, the growing use of intermediates imported from China has contributed to the productivity growth within the manufacturing … production processes of 22 high-income countries. Using China’s productivity as the exogenous variation, the main result – based … significant. With the preferred estimation, a one per cent increase in the use of intermediates imported from China does, on …

-1997 period, this paper examines the impact of foreign presence on the productivity of domestic enterprises. We innovate on … domestic performances: productivity gaps between foreign and domestic firms, and productivity levels of MNEs. It is shown that … it is the combination of high gaps and high levels of foreign productivity that has the most positive effects. This leads …

are robust across different estimation methods. -- Total factor productivity ; Italian regions ; panel data …

This article investigates the role played by public capital in increasing the productivity levels in Italy. For …