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

productivity directly, by reallocating resources towards more productive uses, but also indirectly through the effects of increased …

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 …

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

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … growth in total factor productivity. …

Although learning-by-doing is believed to be an important source of productivity growth, there is limited evidence that … production volume affects productivity in a causal sense. We document evidence of learning-by-doing in a highly skilled …