and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand …

It is now stylized that, while the impact of ownership on firm productivity is unclear, product market competition can … be expected to have a positive impact on productivity, thereby making entry (or contestability of markets) desirable … factors governing entry rates, especially in the context of developing countries. Using 3-digit industry level data from India …

investment in knowledge, and its productivity, looking at sectoral peculiarities which may emerge; to this end, we use a large … positive impact on a firm's productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.10; this general result is largely consistent … ahead in terms of the impact on productivity of their R&D investments; moreover, a shift in favour of the service sectors …

of income and export intensity. We investigate theoretically and empirically how financial constraints affect a firm …'s innovation and export activities, using unique firm survey data which provides direct measures for innovations and firm … export and hence to catch up to the technological frontiers. This negative effect is amplified as financial constraints force …

evidence on the link of productivity and both exports and foreign direct investment (fdi) in services firms from a highly … taking differences along the conditional productivity distribution and firms with extreme values, or outliers, into account …) indicate that the productivity pecking order found in numerous studies using data for firms from manufacturing industries …

experts may impact on the productivity and wages of domestic firms. Using matched worker-firm data from Denmark and a …

export status and provides an explanation for the lackluster average productivity performance of exporting plants. … economic environment and their contributions to aggregate productivity growth in the period following the implementation of the … North American Trade Agreement (NAFTA). In all industries, an overwhelming share of aggregate productivity growth is …

extensive and the intensive margins and the connection between exporting dynamics and plant-level total factor productivity … and account for a small share of gross, industry-level changes in exports, employment, output, and productivity. The … dynamics at the intensive margin is intense and heterogeneous. Plant mobility across deciles of export distribution has an …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …