This paper investigates the importance of productivity catch-up, as an indicator of technology spillovers, to productivity growth. Evidence is found that productivity catch-up is statistically and quantitatively important. Establishments in industries where high productivity firms have pushed out the technological frontier grow faster, indicating that leading firms generate positive externalities...
Productivity growth in sectors that intensively use Information Technologies IT appears to have accelerated much faster in the US than in Europe since 1995, leading to the US "Productivity miracle". If this was partly due to the superior management/organization of US firms (rather than simply the US geographical or regulatory...
In a detailed comparison of matched samples of electronics establishments in Britain and France, this paper finds that the two samples of establishments were operating in distinctively different national labour markets for engineers and scientists, reflecting structural differences in national higher education systems and a far higher level of individual...
This paper proposes an approach to the identification and measurement of what is called a Decent Work Enterprise DWE. Actually, it would be more correct to call it a Decent Work Firm, since the unit on which it focuses is the actual establishment or workplace, rather than the broader concept...
Using U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis data for individual foreign acquisitions and new establishments in the U.S from 1988 to 1998, and aggregate data for 1980 to 1998, this paper finds that acquisitions and establishments of new firms tend to occur in periods of high U.S. growth and take place...
This study assesses the strength of child support enforcement CSE in the seven cities included in the Fragile Families study, with a special emphasis on in-hospital paternity establishment. The paper uses four indicators of the effectiveness of child support enforcement and paternity establishment. It shows that Texas has a weak...
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