We find very fast convergence in productivity for the 99 3-digit European industries over the 1985-1998 period …. According to our estimates half of any productivity gap is closed on average in 10 years. The speed of convergence is much … productivity catch up. Skill intensity fastens structural adjustment but seems to have no effect on convergence in productivity …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

This paper examines the relationship between firm multifactor productivity growth (mfp) and changing skill levels of …

robots, and a productivity-enhancing reallocation of labor across firms, away from non-adopters, and toward adopters. …

growth has largely kept pace with private sector real output growth, that productivity growth has been much higher, and that … result of productivity growth (assumed to reflect automation) and are part of a long-term trend. Since the 1980s, however …, the apparently robust growth in manufacturing real output and productivity have been driven by a relatively small industry …

This paper provides an overview of productivity development and other related indicators in Asian-Pacific (APAC …) countries, with comparisons with the Europe region. We use the seventh vintage firm-level data from the Productivity Research … Network in the APAC region and CompNet in Europe for our study. The overall results show that the productivity growth in …

investigates links between firm productivity and monetary and non-monetary dimensions of job quality. The results point to a … positive impact of higher salaries on firm productivity, but limited effects of non-monetary job quality indicators … quality indicators had a weak impact on productivity, however, reducing the incentive of employers to invest in job quality …

of foreign mergers and acquisitions on labour productivity and employment growth up to five years after acquisition. Our …

with a discussion of productivity and the digital transformation in Chapter 2. It examines the trend of declining … productivity growth worldwide and in particular the fact that the productivity gap between large corporations and SMEs is a common … phenomenon widely found in most countries. In addition, in order to cope with the weakening trend of productivity growth, this …