activities on firms' total factor productivity (TFP) and its subsequent effect on firm growth, measured by sales. Controlling for … size and age of the firms, productivity levels and productivity growth of firms over time are found to be key drivers of … firm size adjustments. The activities leading to higher productivity levels are organizational change, cooperation with …

namely, structural change and technological catch up. For each country, the index calculates the productivity gap with … productivity by the employment share of those activities in the total labour force. In doing so, it combines a technological … dimension relative productivity and a structural dimension the size of the modern sector thus providing a concise measure of the …

productivity of firms and the existence ofpossible complementarities between these different forms of innovation. …