face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

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 …

test using a data set that combines Social Security earnings records for workers in the Veneto region of Italy with …

overall productivity-enhancing effect. The reform of fixed-term contracts instead did not produce the intended results: it … productivity losses. We estimate substitution elasticities across various types of temporary contracts that are consistent with …

productivity, exploiting an exogenous variation in the institutional environment regulating collective bargaining. We find that the … introduction of collective performance related pay significantly increases productivity by around 3-5 per cent, but such effect … type of parameters used – is also relevant for firm productivity …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

In this paper, we explore the impact of part-time work on firm productivity. Using a large panel data set of Italian … corporations' balance sheets for the period 2000-2010, we first estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) of each firm for each …