likely to shut down, grow faster and contribute disproportionately to aggregate job creation and productivity growth compared …

industries using firm-level panel data. The technical efficiency of firms is found to vary significantly both within and across … industrial sectors in each country. We find strong evidence of a positive relationship between firm technical efficiency levels … between firm efficiency and size is also found to be positive, suggesting big industrial firms in the former planned economies …

relationship between firm age and employee compensation as well as firm age and firm productivity suggest that there may be at …

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

. Examining the sources of labour productivity growth in Mexican manufacturing, however, does not provide support for this … conclusion. Although we find that labour productivity levels vary almost in direct relation to establishment size, labour … productivity growth shows no systematic variation by size class. In fact, small establishments have had the same rate of labour …

States in terms of unemployment, productivity growth and wage inequality. To show this, we construct two fictitious economies … productivity grows less due to larger mismatch. The model can be used to address a number of normative issues. …

Economic development implies that the efficiency of firms in developing countries is approaching that of firms in … privatization, competition and foreign investment. We also test hypotheses positing that only firms near the efficiency frontier … find that privatization to domestic owners did not markedly improve the efficiency of firms; domestic firms are not …

Do firms have the right incentives to innovate in the presence of productivity spillovers? This paper proposes an …-term wage contracts with their workers, productivity spillovers are fully internalized. If firms cannot commit to long-term wage …