This paper analyses the evolution of total factor productivity growth and market power in Spain during the period 1983 …

We have constructed a new database aimed at the study of the relation between firm demography and labour productivity … the degree of dispersion and persistence of productivity levels, as well as the contribution of firm demography to … productivity growth. This analysis has been done at different levels of sector aggregation. We have also studied explicitly the …

selection of migrants in terms of unobserved characteristics that affect their productivity. Wages in Mexico of those migrants …-returning migrants in terms of unobserved productivity. To test whether returning migrants' wages contain any useful information, I …' wages reflect their pre-emigration productivity and are not affected by possible human capital gains derived from the …

Entry of new firms, both in the form of entrepreneurs and corporations, fosters competition and productivity. The entry … of firms and productivity have both been low in the Spanish economy over recent years. This paper analyses the … traditionally overlooked. To do this, we exploit disaggregated data at the local level in Spain. We find that higher judicial …

The literature has found that the size of firms matters for innovation and productivity and, thus, for economic … performance. It is therefore worth explaining why enterprises in Spain are small in international terms. Our findings indicate …

of the efficiency of banking intermediation. In this paper we estimate the productivity of individual Spanish banks and … the industry’s productivity growth over time using the methodology of Olley and Pakes (1996) and Levinsohn and Petrin … (2003), which controls for simultaneity bias. We then examine the contributions of two sets of factors to productivity …