for first order stochastic dominance it is shown that, in line with this hypothesis, the productivity distribution of … guide empirical work on the relation between exports, R&D and productivity. …

significantly positively correlated with innovation in both Japan and the EU. A tentative interpretation might be that a rise in … the US, Japan and the major European countries in order to estimate the effect of energy prices on energy …. Furthermore, the tax ratio, which has consistently risen in Japan and especially the EU, could be seen as an indicator for …

comparable enterprise level data from France, Germany, and the United Kingdom. Exporters are more productive and pay higher wages … significantly smaller in Germany, significantly larger in France, and does not differ significantly in the UK. The results for wages … and productivity hold in the years before the export start, which indicates self-selection into exporting of more …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

sample of manufacturing firms in the US, UK, Germany and France. …

Recent research on international productivity comparisons with historical data has encountered large discrepancies … argued that for Hoffmann's (1965) widely accepted time series for German industrial output, there is no such productivity …-German benchmark and the time series projection is considerable. Attempting to reconcile the time series evidence and the productivity …

recent literature is that there is a clear impact of environmental policy on invention, innovation and diffusion of …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity, and … productivity. …

labor market ensures that the long-run unemployment rate is independent of the size of the capital stock, productivity and …