. A brief empirical analysis of the impact of firing costs on the size of exiting firms supports the model’s conclusions. …

-industry covariance between size and productivity across countries, and this variation is affected by the presence of idiosyncratic …-country patterns of the within-industry covariance between productivity and size and thus help to explain the observed differences in …

paper replicates the study using unique newly available panel data sets for all manufacturing plants from Germany (1995 …

transition process in Slovenian manufacturing has been one of just destruction or in contrast one of creative destruction. To … to slowly reforming transition economies where the transition process in manufacturing is characterized by little job …In most transition countries the aggregate level evidence suggests that most industries are just destroying jobs, due …

using nationally representative survey data of Indian manufacturing enterprises for the period 1995-2006. In these years of … account for 90 per cent of total manufacturing employment. In order to contrast between a 'modernization' and a 'stagnation …' view on formal-informal production linkages, we test whether subcontracting is related to the size of more modern versus …

manufacturing is not inefficient in labour use as modest speed of adjustment has led employment size closer to the optimal level. …This study provides an empirical investigation of the adjustment process of labour in Indian manufacturing industries … applied to a panel of 22 two-digit manufacturing industries for the time period of 22 years covering 1980/81 to 2001/02. We …

capital operating time. We suggest the use of a panel data approach applied to manufacturing data. A dynamic model is …

organised manufacturing industries in India. The study uses a recent survey data on labour market in the organised manufacturing … benefits in the organized manufacturing industries in India. …