Italy ranked last in terms of manufacturing productivity growth according to OECD estimates over the last decade with a …-decile differences in productivity have been increasing. Further, heterogeneous firms' characteristics (i.e. export activity and … productivity. One phenomenon that we observe is what we call a tendency toward "neo-dualism" involving the co-existence of a small …

shows that, contrary to other performance indicators such as productivity, exporting activity is not systematically …”. -- Export premium ; productivity ; profitability …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

This paper investigates firm-level dynamics of labour productivity in China's manufacturing sector over the 1998 …-2007. Underlying the aggregate evidence of dramatic growth of labour productivity, one observes a large, even if shrinking, intra … effect of the characteristics of firms according to the ownership and governance structure upon the productivity …

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

This paper discusses the evolution of firms' productivity and structural heterogeneity (SH) in the Brazilian … large share of total firms is in the lowest productivity groups of the production structure, and there are very large … differences in labour productivity between groups and firms. The paper combines and makes compatible several databases on …

to investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. The overall results are in line with the big picture … heterogeneity are controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales … are more open and have more effective government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per …

Productivity …