mutual links between international activities of firms and productivity. It is written with a view to inform policy makers in …

We use plant output and input prices to decompose the profit margin into four parts: productivity, demand shocks, mark … the impact of productivity, and other market fundamentals, on plant exit. A dynamic simulation that compares the … distribution of productivity with and without the trade reform shows that improvements in market selection from trade reform help …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

structurally estimate the key parameters of our model to construct counterfactual size, productivity and welfare distributions …

to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides …

This paper combines different strands of the productivity literature to investigate the effect of idiosyncratic (firm …-country differences in key economic outcomes, such as productivity or output per capita, to differences in policies and institutions that … determinants of productivity at the firm-level and the evolution of the distribution of productivity across firms within each …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … world market for goods. Furthermore, for the first time the direction of causality in this relationship is investigated … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … developed country. It uses unique new data from Germany - one of the leading actors on the world market for services - that … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …