incentives are mostly concentrated in the medium range of the firm productivity distribution. These findings are robust to …

The missing effect of investments of firms in information and communication technologies on productivity is studied by …) has a stronger effect on the quality of services than on the productivity of the IT-using firm. IT investment seems to be … especially the most recent generation of IT as indicated by the number of PCs used is the source of productivity growth whereas …

The authors provide an extensive review of the rapidly expanding research on productivity, both at the macro and micro …, especially the United States, where such work sheds important light on particular aspects of productivity growth. The authors …

estimates for an extended production function framework reveal significant productivity effects of ICT in the German service … productivity differentials between firms. …

enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we … between labour productivity growth and the percentage of enterprises with new or significantly changed organisational …

In the paper, productivity convergence is analyzed with a broad panel of industry sector data for the United States and … had a significant effect on German sectoral productivity growth in the sixties and seventies. Some part of the catching …-up is due to capital-deepening, but most of it is total factor productivity convergence, i.e. endogenous growth models …

This paper studies the productivity impact of heterogeneous capital inputs of selected EU-15 member countries and of …

This paper contributes to the productivity literature by using results from firm-level productivity studies to improve … forecasts of macro-level productivity growth. The paper employs current research methods on estimating firm-level productivity … to build times-series components that capture the joint dynamics of the firm-level productivity and size distributions …