average labour productivity growth over an extended period of time. This finding is puzzling for a number of reasons. First, a … long-run decline in productivity among market-oriented industries would imply an increasingly inefficient allocation of … resources. Second, these industries typically have high levels of innovation and make intensive use of information technology …

With a newly constructed firm-level dataset combining various survey- and registry data from Statistics Estonia, this … paper sheds new light on the labour productivity premium from adopting digital technologies and boosting digital skill use …. The productivity premium is decomposed into a direct effect benefitting the firms actually increasing their digital …

productivity growth has declined sharply across the OECD over the past decades. Estonia is no exception, though it is well placed … artificial intelligence seem to offer a vast potential to boost productivity and living standards. However, aggregate … digital infrastructure and world-leading e-government services. Turning this potential into a productivity boost necessitates …

The service sector is the largest and fastest growing sector in India and has the highest labor productivity, but …

This paper uses a theory-based measure of productivity-based comparative advantage to examine the trade performance of … integral part of "Factory Asia." Moreover, the results from a quantitative model of trade show that revealed productivity … across sectors and economies. We also find evidence of rapid growth in revealed productivity in some service subsectors …

supposed to be drivers for innovation performance. Using representative firm-level data of 4,121 German firms, this paper … analyzes how the adoption of Industry 4.0 impacts innovation performance. The analysis is based on bivariate regression models … innovations and has a positive impact on the intensity of product innovation in the service sector compared to manufacturing firms …

There is growing interest in modelling the relationship between innovation and productivity in developing and … investigates whether there is a signi¬ficant relationship between technological innovation and pro¬ductivity in the manufacturing … sector of Estonia. We use firm-level data for the analysis from two waves of Community Innovation Surveys (CIS3 and CIS4 …