出版社：Netherlands Bureau for Economic Policy Analysis
摘要：Slow labour productivity growth has been a salient feature of
the Dutch economy for a while, especially in (business) services.
Using firm-level data from the Dutch business services
sector, the article aims to explain this feature by analysing
whether the slow growth is due to a lack of innovation.
Innovation expenditures in the period 1994-1996 were, in fact,
rather low from an international perspective. The article
shows that innovating firms in Dutch business services
realised higher productivity growth rates than non-innovating
firms. Remarkably, innovation did not go along with superior
growth rates in turnover, but was instead accompanied by
lower growth rates of employment.
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