services as they are for manufacturing. We use a longitudinal data base forDutch firms in the retail and hotel and catering … sectors to identify around 13,000 new-firm start-ups and47,000 incumbents in the services and track them over subsequent years …. We are then able test to seewhether the Stylized Results identified based on manufacturing still hold in the services …

We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey …

. Unfortunately, little attention has been paid to the service sector. In this paper we study separately manufacturing and services in … while in services the opposite is the case in a ten-year period. However, when we split the time horizon into two five … economic growth, the firm effect prevails for both manufacturing and services. These findings underline the importance of the …

We link a new UK management survey covering 8,000 firms to panel data on productivity in manufacturing and services …

We analyze the performance of firms in the German business-related services sector. A quarterly business survey …