This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-skilled employees and industries in Germany by a more unequal distribution of human capital intensity. In Germany, average innovation …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 …-technology manufacturing, average innovation performance is higher in all industries in Germany and the innovation performance distributions …

This paper explores the effects of two main sources of innovation —intramural and external R&D— on the productivity … level in a sample of 3,267 Catalan firms. The data set used is based on the official innovation survey of Catalonia which … different patterns at both innovation sources as we move across conditional quantiles. The elasticity of intramural R …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on human capital and productivity and summarizes the results of my own work … sizable effect on productivity growth. According to my estimates, moreover, the social returns to investment in human capital …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on human capital and productivity and summarizes the results of my own work … sizable effect on productivity growth.According to my estimates, moreover, the social returns to investment in human capital …

This paper surveys the empirical literature on human capital and productivity and summarizes the results of my own work … sizable effect on productivity growth. According to my estimates, moreover, the social returns to investment in human capital …

innovation and imitation. We develop a theoretical model showing that skilled labour has a higher growth-enhancing effect closer … to the technological frontier under the reasonable assumption that innovation is a relatively more skill intensive …

on the factors behind the productivity gap between Atlantic Canada and Canada in the context of the manufacturing sector …. A number of possible factors contributing to the Atlantic Canada-Canada manufacturing productivity gap are examined … production. Of these, innovation is found to be the most important. Since research and development activity has been historically …