The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

manufacturing sector, especially for imports coming from China and Russia. However, similar negative effects are also estimated for …

Network (CompNet). The new database provides information on the distribution of labour productivity, TFP, ULC or size of firms …, within each industry, but also their joint analysis with the productivity of the firm provides critical insights to both … productivity developments and its drivers. For instance, by using covariances between productivity and employment the paper shows …