12-November-2015
English
Frontier Firms, Technology Diffusion and Public Policy: Micro Evidence from OECD Countries
This paper analyses the characteristics of firms that operate at the global productivity frontier and their relationship with other firms in the economy, focusing on the diffusion of global productivity gains and the policies that facilitate it.
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1-October-2015
English
Trends in Firm Entry and New Entrepreneurship in Canada
Recently released data show downward trends for both the firm entry rate and the rate of new entrepreneurship since the early 1980s in Canada. This paper documents these trends and discusses potential explanations.
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1-October-2015
German
1-October-2015
English
Gross domestic product per capita in France and in advanced economies:The role of productivity and employment
This issue of Rue de la Banque examines changes in living standards as measured by gross domestic product (GDP) per capita in 13 OECD countries, including France, between 1890 and 2012.
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24-August-2015
English
Productivity Is Soaring at Top Firms and Sluggish Everywhere Else - Chiara Criscuolo
Seen from this perspective, the productivity problem isn’t a lack of global innovation. It’s a failure by many firms to adopt new technologies and best practices. Indeed, the main source of the productivity slowdown is not a slowing in the rate of innovation by the most globally advanced firms, but rather a slowing of the pace at which innovations spread throughout the economy: a breakdown of the diffusion machine.
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21-August-2015
English
Structural Policies and Productivity: Evidence from Portuguese Firms
This paper provides empirical evidence on links between the productivity of Portuguese firms and a number of policy variables in Portugal. The analysis is based on a census of Portuguese manufacturing companies, covering more than 40,000 firms between 2006 and 2011. The results suggest that a number of these variables do have an impact on firm performance.
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3-July-2015
English
Cross-country evidence on start-up dynamics
The report provides a description of start-up dynamics exploiting the richness of the DynEmp v.2 database. The contribution of new firms in terms of new jobs to the existing workforce can be expressed as a combination of four different elements: the start-up rate; the average size of firms at point of entry; the survival rate; and the average growth rate of survivors.
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1-July-2015
English
Cultural diversity and plant-level productivity
Using comprehensive data for German establishments, Michaela Trax, Stephan Brunow, and Jens Suedekum estimate plant-level production functions to analyze if “cultural diversity” affects total factor productivity.
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23-June-2015
English
Productivity spillovers from the global frontier and public policy: Industry-level evidence
As economies converge toward the global technological frontier, the ability to capitalise on new innovations developed at that frontier becomes more important. Using industry level data for 15 countries over the period 1984-2007, this paper identifies the relevant channels and policies that shape an economy’s ability to learn from the global productivity frontier.
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1-June-2015
English
Macroeconomic imbalances Country Report – Germany 2015
This Country Report assesses Germany’s economy against the background of the Commission’s Annual Growth Survey. It also explores ways to maximise the impact of public resources and unlock private investment. Finally, it assesses Germany in the light of the findings of the 2015 Alert Mechanism Report, in which the Commission found it useful to further examine the persistence of imbalances or their unwinding.