productivity in the United Kingdom relative to the United States, and to a lesser extent also relative to France and Japan until …The present study contributes to the analysis of economic growth by comparing labour ant total factor productivity (TFP …) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the very long run (since 1890) and in the medium run (since …

This paper analyzes the implications of labor market institutions and policies on the employment-labor productivity … unemployment and the distribution of both wages and productivity are endogenous. By means of simulations of this model estimated on …

The growth patterns of service sectors across France, Germany, and the US exhibit striking differences. This can … explain most of the well-known differences in aggregate growth rates of labour productivity and employment across these … productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

The empirical relationship between competition intensity and the rate of productivity growth across 30 sectors of the … competition for each sector, defined by the price markup that maximises the growth rate of hourly labour productivity. As there is … follows that sectors with high technical progress require higher markups to maximise their labour productivity growth rate …

Using a balanced panel of firm-level data on the manufacturing industry in France, Italy and Spain over the 1993 …-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 …

We study the impact of techies--engineers and other technically trained workers--on firm-level productivity. We first … structural econometric methods, we estimate the causal effect of techies on firm-level Hicks-neutral productivity in both … manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this effect goes beyond the …

We study the impact of techies—engineers and other technically trained workers—on firm-level productivity. We first …-neutral productivity in both manufacturing and non-manufacturing industries. We find that techies raise firm-level productivity, and this … of techies on productivity operates mostly through ICT and other techies, not R&D workers. Engineers have a greater …