Innovation is one of the usual suspects in defining differences in performance among firms, according to a strong and diverse theoretical framework. Understanding the diversity that exists within the population of innovative firms is essential to elaborate appropriate innovation policies. Our...

The coronavirus crisis hit both the world and national economies hard. By using a structural equation modelling (SEM) approach and microlevel data from the Community Innovation Survey (CIS2020) on a representative sample of 6437 Norwegian firms comprising a set of COVID-19-related questions,...

In a growth accounting context one usually constructs a quality adjusted index of labor services by aggregating over predefined groups of workers, using the groups' relative wage bills as weights. In this article we suggest a method based on decomposing individual predicted wages into a...