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Labour Productivity in Kenyan Manufacturing and Service Industries
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011494295
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Labour productivity in Kenyan manufacturing and service industries
Heshmati, Almas; Rashidghalam, Masoomeh - 2016
Labour productivity reflects a firm's ability to generate higher production or value-added. This paper analyses labour productivity and its determinants in the manufacturing and service sectors in Kenya. As the largest economy in East Africa, it is crucial for Kenya to have high labour...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011458981
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - 2003
This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298125
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Innovation and performance in manufacturing industries: A comparison of the Nordic countries
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - 2001
The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281247
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On the relationship between innovation and performance: A sensitivity analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - 2001
performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects … the same data sources, an identical model but different data sources, different classifications of firm performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010281410
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On the Relationship between Innovation and Performance: A sensitivity Analysis
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001
performance. In doing so, we rely on a knowledge production function approach and carry out comparisons in a number of respects … the same data sources, an identical model but different data sources, different classifications of firm performance and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005190850
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The link between firm-level innovation and aggregate productivity growth: a cross-country examination
Heshmati, Almas; Lööf, Hans - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2003
This paper investigates whether failure in innovation at the firm level can account for cross-country heterogeneity in manufacturing productivity growth. There is no strong evidence in the literature on the existence of such link. Our work, however, differs in a number of ways from much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005097608
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Knowledge Capital and Performance Heterogeneity: A Firm Level Innovation Study
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2000
This paper is an empirical analysis of knowledge capital and performance heterogeneity at the firm level. We apply new … as the ratio of innovation sales to total sales, is found to be a significant factor contributing to the performance … relationship between firm performance and knowledge capital. This relationship holds even when we control for human capital, type …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649144
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Innovation and Performance in Manufacturing Industries: A Comparison of the Nordic Countries
Lööf, Hans; Heshmati, Almas; Asplund, Rita; Nåås, … - Economics Institute for Research (SIR), … - 2001
The availability of new internationally-harmonized innovation survey data collected from OECD countries has created some interesting opportunities for studying the following two key areas: (1) the determinants of innovation behavior at firm level, and (2) innovation as an important factor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005649409