We investigate the role of workers' and managerial experience as a determinant of firm innovation and productivity in a … innovation and productivity. The effect of managerial experience measured by age on firm performance depends instead on the type … of firm: high age of managers and board members is bad for innovation and productivity growth, while costs and benefits …

drives low-productivity firms from the small country's home market, replacing them with high-productivity exporters from … abroad. This endogenous policy response creates a selection effect that increases the average productivity of home firms when …

productivity - enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it induced a … substitution of temporary employees in favor of permanent ones and reduced capital intensity, generating productivity losses. We …

firms, and multiple asymmetric regions. Wages, productivity, consumption diversity, and markups across firms and markets are … by the Canada-US border. We find that Canadian average labor productivity increases by 8.03%, whereas US average labor … productivity rises by just 1.02%. Consumers' exposure to market power falls sizably by up to 12.11% in the Canadian provinces, and …

elsewhere) can be used by multinational firms which have different productivity to serve the market abroad when product chains … abroad by either horizontal or vertical FDI. Upon opening a market to trade, firms with the lowest productivity will exit …, those with intermediate productivity will export, and those with higher productivity will choose fragmentation. Among the …

Heterogeneous firm productivity seems to provide an argument for governments to pursue ‘pick-the-winner' strategies by …, favoring high-productivity firms is indeed the optimal policy. When tax competition is aggressive and profit taxes are low …, however, the optimal tax policy is reversed and low-productivity firms are tax-favored …

of productivity and economic density to explain the positive price-income relationship, and find that the empirical …

This paper studies theoretically and empirically why and how labor policies may reduce productivity and employment in …