health and social spending, lifestyle variables, and medical innovation. Our first set of regressions include a set of … health spending has a significant and mild effect on health outcomes, even after controlling for medical innovation. However …, its short-run adjustments do not seem to have an impact on health care productivity. Spatial spill overs in life …

spending. We estimate that technological change, taking the form of increased productivity at an annual rate of 1.8%, explains …

This paper explores the possible job creation effect of innovation activity. We analyze a unique panel dataset covering … is the labour-friendly nature of innovation, which we measure in terms of forward-citation weighted patents. However …, this positive impact of innovation is statistically significant only for firms in the high-tech manufacturing sectors …

productivity varies across working environments. Using detailed Belgian linked employer-employee panel data for 1999-2010, they … find the existence of a significant, positive (negative) impact of over- (under-)education on firm productivity. Moreover …, their results show that the effect of over-education on productivity is stronger among firms: (i) with a higher share of …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility …

We present in this paper the panel econometrics estimation approach of measuring the technical change and total factor … productivity (TFP) growth of 30 Chinese provinces during the period of 1993 to 2003. The random effects model with heteroscedastic … variances has been used for the estimation of the translog production functions. Two alternative formulations of technical …