employment and productivity effects occupying much of the literature around the subject. In particular for Japan, the studies … conducted so far focus on the disaggregate level and put the stress on the productivity side alone. Here I analyze both the … employment and the productivity effects at the aggregate industry level, covering the years 1980-2005. Moreover, I consider all …

Motivated by new evidence that managerial incentives play an important role in determining firm productivity, this … openness and endogenous firm productivity. We show that firm heterogeneity plays a crucial role in the effects of openness on … aggregate productivity. …

models of production and raise productivity. Several countries in Asia have shown that investing in education, research …

productivity. Under certain conditions this will lead to a productivity increase of the whole ensemble. The present day view that … called exploitation. The outcome depends on the relation between fix cost, variable cost, productivity and affinity. Brute … in exploitation. In case the transfer of substrates leads to increased productivity parts of the productivity might be …

competitiveness, specifically with a stronger emphasis on productivity performance, the paper also introduces a more elaborate … framework that takes into account the interactions between country-specific factors and firm-level productivity. It thus makes …

Productivity growth has declined since the late 1990s, slowing the catching-up process. Structural reforms to …

National framework conditions mediate the effect of technological capabilities of firms on their productivity. Although … institutional conditions influence total factor productivity of firms. Furthermore, we find that the effects of the national …, formal training of workers and access to technology through foreign ownership make more difference for productivity of firms …

The Productivity Commission released a Staff Working Paper ‘Can Australia Match US Productivity Performance?’ (by Ben … level of productivity. While other countries have caught up with — and even surpassed — US productivity, Australia’s catch …-up has been comparatively modest and patchy. International comparisons of productivity are useful, but also have hazards …