This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

We take a fresh look at firms' innovation-productivity linkages, using novel data capturing new aspects of innovative … IP, launches and productivity, controlling for media exposure and firm heterogeneity. Launch activity is associated with … higher SME productivity, especially in the service sector. High-quality launches and medium-size firms help drive this result. …

We analyse how changes in international trade integration affect productivity and the functional income distribution … integration increases productivity. Second, we show that international trade integration is associated with higher labour shares …

Productivity (TFP) than incumbents. Increased competition from new entrants leads incumbents to reduce the price of union …Using panel data for nearly all service providers in a single industry sector, we examine productivity responses to … changes in competition in the United States. The sector offers workplace employee representation through trade union branches …

competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

Enterprise Performance Survey (BEEPS) to assess the effect on performance of ownership, competition, export orientation and the … variables and endogeneity that plague studies in this area. We find that foreign ownership and competition have an impact on …

experiment. We investigate whether information provision attracts mainly high productivity individuals and reduces competition … productivity distribution of all potential opponents reduces competition failures by more than 50%, (2) information on the …This paper studies the influence of information on entry choices in a competition with a controlled laboratory …

-size distribution? Do they affect individual city sizes? Do they contribute to the productivity advantage of large cities and the … toughness of competition in cities? The short answers are: no; yes; and it depends. -- trade frictions ; urban frictions ; city …-size distribution ; productivity ; markups …

to higher school productivity. We discuss the evidence in this area, concluding that the impact of competition has proven … market design might be necessary to ensure that competition enhances educational performance. -- education ; markets …