firms always have a higher market share, there is no monotonic relationship between firms? productivity level and their … effect”. Therefore, the incentive to add more products weakens as productivity rises. This leads to Lemma 3 in Feenstra and …

offshoring and domestic outsourcing with a firm panel. I find that offshoring of non-core activities has led to productivity … question whether this has led to productivity gains within firms. I address this question by combining industry-level data on … gains whereas offshoring of core activities and domestic outsourcing have had no such effects. The estimated productivity …

The paper surveys the literature on the effects of finance on productivity growth. In both the theoretical and … growth. Clearer positive effects emerge when considering growth channels related to productivity dynamics, with the estimated …

This paper evaluates the implications for employment, productivity and wages of allowing for more flexibility in weekly … in productivity. In the work sharing scenario, the increase in employment (1.86%) comes at the expense of a lower … productivity increase (1.31%) and a decrease in weekly hours worked (4%). Finally, the full flexibility scenario preserves …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

negative relationship between labor’s share and lagged productivity growth and inflation. I also evaluate the role of labor …

equilibrium model featuring inter-temporal productivity spillovers, which may exhibit a sector-specific and regional bias. In …

The effects of unions on productivity and firm performance have been the topic of extensive research. Existing studies … of identical firms. This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity and firm … tougher selection among heterogeneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less …

corruption on productivity. Corruption is defined as a “bribe tax” and is compared to another form of institutional inefficiency … their effects in the full sample, only the bribe tax appears to have a negative effect on firm-level productivity, while the … taxes, implying that bribing does not emerge as a second-best option to achieve higher productivity by helping circumvent …

is increasing in its productivity, with the most productive multinationals choosing not to rely on a foreign partner at …