The Slovenian transition represents a slow but steady liberalization of constraints on competition. Using a unique … of atypically rapid growth of total factor productivity (TFP) relative to levels in OECD countries, and that the rise in … as surviving firms, prove to be the major source of TFP gains. Market competition from new entrants, foreign-owned firms …

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 …

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 …

in the U.S. private sector affect economic performance - productivity, profitability, investment, and growth. Freeman and … Medoff are clearly correct that union productivity effects vary substantially across workplaces. Their conclusion that union … productivity effect near zero. Their speculation that productivity effects are larger in more competitive environments appears to …

impacts found come from trained firms competing away sales from other businesses versus through productivity improvements, and …

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 …

effect of private-school competition on students' entrepreneurial intentions. We exploit Catholic-Church resistance to state …

productivity for the entire surviving population of initially state-owned industrial corporations in Romania. The data permit us to … significant effect of private ownership share on the level and growth of labor productivity, the estimates ranging from 13 to 32 … log points for the level, and 9 to 16 for productivity growth. The strongest estimated impacts arise from sales to foreign …