American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. …

entry and exit as well as survival analysis of new firms. Also decompositions of productivity change into components … consisting of resource reallocation, firm entry and exit, and productivity growth within continuing firms is carried out. Our … productivity compared to incumbent firms and changes in the sectoral structure of the economy. The decomposition of productivity …

education. The econometric evidence documents a strong relationship between ICT capital and productivity in both countries, even …

Offshoring is generally believed to be productivity-enhancing and this belief is underpinned by economic theory. This … productivity. Estimating the impact of materials and business services offshoring on productivity growth with industry-level data … show that there is no productivity effect of materials offshoring, while business services offshoring leads to productivity …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …First moves towards a real understanding of offshoring date back to very recent times. In particular for Japan, the …

This paper examines how productivity effects of human capital and innovation vary at different points of the … conditional productivity distribution. Our analysis draws upon two large unbalanced panels of 6,634 enterprises in Germany and 14 … are more dispersed in the Netherlands. In both countries, we observe non-linearities in the productivity effects of …