-setting power) and (iii) revenue productivity. We apply this framework to analyze whether the pricing behavior of firms in product … find export status to be positively correlated with both product market power (markups) and market power consolidated on …

American and Caribbean countries to analyze the magnitude and determinants of the productivity gap between large and SME firms … and to simulate of the impact on productivity of various policy scenarios. -- SMEs ; SME policy ; productivity ; Latin …

In the early 1990's, the Argentine government promoted a framework for productivity-based negotiations between firms … investigate the effect of union practices on productivity within the context of the reform. The findings show that (i) industry …-wide practices on displacement of workers and training have a negative impact on productivity; (ii) work practices do not appear to …

This paper estimates the relative multi-factor productivity (MFP) of privatized and state-owned enterprises using a …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our microeconometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

We describe new experimental productivity statistics, Dispersion Statistics on Productivity (DiSP), jointly developed … and published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) and the Census Bureau. Official BLS productivity statistics provide … information on aggregate productivity growth. Yet, a large body of research shows that within-industry variation in productivity …

performance, and total factor productivity. Second, we investigate whether and how such effects are transmitted to the workers, in … both firms and workers. The estimation of rent-sharing equations, as well as other tests that exploit unionization data …

document the first empirical results on the relationship between imports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on the … systematically by testing for self-selection of more productive firms into importing, and for productivity-enhancing effects of … imports ('learning-by-importing'). We find a positive link between importing and productivity. From an empirical model with …