Increased productivity is one of the main drivers of economic growth. Considering the increasing importance of the … service sector in many economies studies of productivity in service firms are essential, but still rare. Questions concerning … the underlying reasons for productivity differences in service firms are therefore important. Why is the productivity in …

with a monopolistic competition framework a la Dixit-Stiglitz considering heterogeneous firms with different productivity … run equilibrium only those firms with survive in the market which have a sufficiently high productivity level or can … compensate their lower productivity level by wage cost advantages. We show that the increase of productivity might be explained …

-urban migration on city wages. Our results contribute to the evaluation of regional policies, as recent research has found that …

total factor productivity relationship. Static externalities refer to current period scale or industry-size effects which … spillovers associated with spillovers from these two types of knowledge externalities. The magnitude of own-region impacts and … other-region (spillovers) can be assessed using scalar summary measures of the own- and cross-partial derivatives from the …

' survival and employment growth disentangling horizontal and vertical spillovers. We investigate these issues both for firms …. We consider the heterogeneity of both MNEs and domestic firms (global engagement, firm and sector dimension, productivity … favor of positive spillovers is not overwhelming. In the case of Italy, the survival of domestic firms is positively …

to be hampered by many barriers following from short in capabilities, particularly various missing skills in the … management team. In this paper, we examine the role of capability factors and particular skills among a specific category of … skills in internationalization of knowledge collaboration, and to this purpose we apply various regression models. The …

the recent literature on the determinants of productivity differentials in a regional context, this paper aims to discuss … part of the paper presents a discussion how higher wages can be found in denser areas, where the economic activity is more … sectorial and municipal fixed effects. Moreover, identifying skills according to the occupational position of the individuals in …

mystery of what exactly raises productivity in large cities continues. Going back to the famous pin factory of Adam Smith, the … productivity. Duranton and Jayet (2011) indeed find that the division of occupations is limited by the extent of the market. But …

is declining while that of the highly educated is rising. This study estimates the impact of cohort size on wages using … effect of cohort size on individual wages rather than on the average wage of a specific age-education group which allows … controlling for potentially confounding effects at the individual level. The effect of cohort size on male wages is identified …