Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … interest in maximising productivity. Ours is the first study to measure service industry productivity using both price and … Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …

Are some management practices akin to a technology that can explain company and national productivity, or do they … estimate it using panel data to recover parameters including the depreciation rate and adjustment costs of managerial capital … cross-country total factor productivity differences …

The paper analyzes the gender pay gap in private-sector management positions based on German panel data and using fixed …

higher probability of a substantial loss and a reduction of productivity. The productivity effect and the two other effects …

, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting …-tech sector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assets appears vital for the productivity …

studying firm-level panel data in most advanced transition economy, Slovenia. Previous empirical literature - mainly cross …-sectional - has tested the demand-pull hypothesis and found in overall that R&D expenses may be driven by output. Using a panel of …

experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

productivity in Germany. This association increases with firm size. Comparison to a similar survey in the US indicates that the … at least in part to blame for the differences in aggregate productivity between Germany and the US …