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 …

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 …

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 …

less. Laggard firms, we suggest, should instead achieve productivity growth through efficient exploitation of existing …

productivity and employment growth. …

effect on the adopters' employment and on the value-added and average wage, whereas sales and productivity increase after an …

This paper highlights new findings on the wage-productivity nexus in the World Factory Economy. After presenting the … long-run macro-elasticity characterizing the phase of Chinese economic development since the eighties, we look at the wage-productivity … sector, the distribution of gains from the impressive labour productivity growth appears to be markedly uneven. Finally …