This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …

As a result of debt enforcement problems, many high-productivity firms in emerging economies are unable to pledge … additional resources that flow to high-productivity firms after the reforms. We show that some of these resources do not come … from abroad, but instead from domestic low-productivity firms that are driven out of business as a result of the reforms …

We explore the relationship between innovation activity, productivity, and exports using a panel of Spanish … explaining the positive export-productivity association documented in prior research. For the sample of small innovating firms …, we find no significant differences in productivity levels between exporters and non-exporters. Especially product …

productivity growth linked to the delayed effects of previously invented 'general purpose technologies' stimulated an increase in … fixed investment that became excessive and proved to be unsustainable, while the productivity acceleration helps to account …

Foreign-owned firms are often hypothesized to generate productivity “spillovers” to the host country, but both …-ante identical workers learn from their employers in proportion to the firm’s productivity. Foreign-owned firms have, on average …, higher productivity in equilibrium due to entry costs, which means that low-productivity foreign firms cannot enter. Foreign …

business sector labour productivity in the major OECD countries. The method implies that the trend is the long-run forecast of … productivity, given all available information; the cycle is thus interpreted as the total excess growth that would be forecasted … beyond `normal' rates of productivity (see Evans and Reichlin (1993a)). Multivariate trends in productivity were estimated …

relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …

accompanying revival of productivity growth, directly contributed both to faster output growth and to holding down the inflation … the United States, they did not prevent the US from experiencing a dismal period of slow productivity growth between 1972 … and 1995 nor from falling behind in numerous industries outside the IT sector. The 1995-2000 productivity growth revival …