productivity differences explain most of the cross-country variation in factor prices. …

This paper has reviewd productivity in the auto industry from three quite different approaches and then suggested and … implemented a fouth approach. The appproach used is the only econometruc approach to measuring firm productivity that permits … reporting firm-level productivity results, and it does so by using only widely available product-level data. …

and operate on international markets) on the productivity dynamics of enterprises. Using a unique balanced panel of 681 … show that exposure to deep reform have lead to higher productivity realisations while remaining under state ownership. …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact …

In this study we deal with the direct effects on productivity of the inhouse R&D expenditures of firms. In particular …

It is standard in the literature on training to use wages as a sufficient statistic for productivity. This paper … examines the effects of work-related training on direct measures of productivity. Using a new panel of British industries 1983 … productivity. A one percentage point increase in training is associated with an increase in value added per hour of about 0.6% and …

more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have …/value added and decreases in mean firm wages (at pre-existing layers). The reverse holds for removing layers. This result also … holds for layer by layer mean size and wages for a majority of pre-existing layers. …