12.09.2022

Business Productivity across Sectors in Austria

WIFO Research Brief with First Evidence from Microdata

As part of the "Horizon 2020" project "GROWINPRO", Klaus Friesenbichler, Agnes Kügler (WIFO) and Julia Schieber-Knöbl (Statistics Austria) examined sectoral employment and productivity developments using microdata.

Considerable performance differences between and within sectors emerge in Austria. The picture drawn forms a central information basis for industrial and innovation policy in Austria.

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WIFO Research Briefs

12.09.2022

Firm-level Productivity across Sectors in Austria

First Evidence from Microdata

Klaus Friesenbichler
Agnes Kügler (WIFO)
Julia Schieber-Knöbl (STAT)

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Finalization: September 2022

Project partner Austrian Institute of Economic Research, Statistics Netherlands, Istituto Nazionale di Statistica, Lunaria Associazione di Promozione Sociale e Impresa Sociale, United Nations University – Maastricht Economic and Social Research Institute on Innovation and Technology, Fondation Nationale des Sciences Politiques, Scuola superiore Sant'Anna, Statistics Austria, University College London, University of Ljubljana, University of Tartu, Catholic University of Leuven, Centre for European Economic Research, University of Bielefeld

Contractor project: European Commission, Framework Programme

Specialist publication: WIFO Research Briefs

JEL-Codes: D22, D24