What has been the dynamics of productivity in the Italian business firms in the aftermath of the crisis? And what has … document what we call a neo-dualist tendency with a leader-laggard dynamics entailing a widening support of the productivity … relationship appears, either between initial training intensities and subsequent productivity changes, nor between changes in both …

productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of … external credit. We also offer an initial understanding about how profitability and productivity relate with a third dimension … profitable firms to grow faster. -- firm performance ; profitability ; productivity ; financial constraints …