This paper reviews policies to strengthen Germany’s productivity growth and prepare for changes in labour markets … reformed for the future of work. Germany enjoys a relatively high labour productivity level but productivity growth has been … modest in recent years. There is room to boost productivity growth by accelerating the diffusion of new technologies …

probability of robot adoption. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative …

robots. However, controlling for plant size, we find that plant-level productivity has no, if not negative, impact on robot …

that productivity growth has slowed down since the Great Recession because the co-movement of employment and GDP has …

In this paper, we describe the historical co-evolution of innovation and economic growth in Germany since 1871. The … country's rise as an industrial power in the late 19th century, through its innovation and entrepreneurial performance, is … nevertheless a period during which innovation went into relative decline. We document this decline and offer four broad …

stock through firm-sponsored training might lead to more innovation. We test this hypothesis using detailed data on firms …' human capital investments and innovation performance, the Canadian longitudinal linked employer-employee data from 1999 …-2006. Our results, with workplace fixed-effects and allowing for time-varying productivity shocks, demonstrate that more …

overview of technological innovation and labor productivity growth from 1871. From this we show that over the past three … decades the economy has found it increasingly difficult to transform technological innovation into labor productivity growth …Entrepreneurship in Germany has been stagnating. As a result, the effectiveness of technological innovation to improve …

question in the context of a heterogeneous-firm RBC model with persistent firm-level productivity shocks and lumpy capital …