markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

the years of Conservative government, 1979-97. We focus on measures of business performance, especially productivity … growth. This is a key economic indicator as in the long run, productivity determines material wellbeing - wages and … consumption. Productivity determines the size of the 'economic pie' available to the citizens of a country. …

and productivity. We decompose the spatial variation of earnings into a productivity effect and an occupational … that doubling the population of working age proximate to an area is associated with a 3.5% increase in productivity in the …

Empirical evidence suggests that trade liberalization increases firm productivity. This paper offers a novel … outsourcing as firms focus on their core competencies in response to tougher competition. Since firms are the better at performing … tasks the closer they are to their core competencies, this outsourcing increases firm productivity. Moreover, I also …

. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be …

This paper analyzes differences in R&D spending and in the impact of R&D on productivity between German and UK firms …

shared compensation practices have had higher productivity than other firms, but the effects vary among programs, suggesting …

characteristics and efficiency as the main determinants of their productivity. The application of this analysis to the European market … shows that productivity differences among flag carriers could explain the governments' different views about deregulation at …

" hypothesis that foreign research labs located on US soil tap into US R&D spillovers and improve home country productivity. Using … firms’ Total Factor Productivity would have been at least 5% lower in 2000 (about $14bn) in the absence of the US R&D growth …

links between unions and labour productivity have been eroded by greater competition and more emphasis on ''partnership'' in …If the presence of a union in a workplace or firm raises the pay level, unless productivity rises correspondingly … senescence. Therefore the impact of unions on productivity, financial performance and investment is extremely important. This …