This paper estimates the impact of road improvements on firm employment and productivity using plant level longitudinal …, but not the employment of existing firms. We also find effects on labour productivity and wages at the firm level … data for Britain. Exposure to transport improvements is measured by changes in employment accessibility along the road …

misallocation. The fall in labour productivity is therefore likely to reverse if demand improves – e.g. through stronger monetary or …

Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro … positive program treatment effect on employment, investment and net entry but not on TFP. OLS underestimates program effects … for larger firms (e.g. over 150 employees). We also find the policy raises area level manufacturing employment mainly …

This paper examines the relationship between foreign ownership and productivity, paying particular attention to two … productivity than foreign multinationals, but the difference is less stark in the service sector than in the production sector, and …

interaction among firm-level internationalization, innovation and productivity across seven European countries (Austria, France … survives after controlling for productivity, with some evidence of causality running from the latter to the former. Our … analysis suggests that export promotion per se is unlikely to lead to sustainable internationalization because …

This paper presents evidence on gender segregation in employment contracts in 15 EU countries, using micro data from … productivity differentials between the two genders. There is thus a largely unexplained residual in the gender job allocation …