Over the last two decades privatization programs in different countries radically reduced the role of the State as a …'s principal-agent structure following privatization, and incentives to invest in R&D and to patent. We compare the pre and post … privatization R&D effort and patenting behavior of 35 companies that were fully or partially privatized in 9 European countries …

above average size, initial profitability and initial labor productivity. After controlling for this selection bias, we find … that foreign investment has a positive, but statistically insignificant, impact on TFP (Total Factor Productivity) growth …

Even though it is well documented that privatization leads to an improvement in the performance of state … because it does not consider the performance of control firms of similar pre-privatization situations, i.e. the performance of … following privatization. Matching sample firms (privatized) to control firms (SOEs), I document that privatized firms do not …

efficiency gains result from better incentives and productivity, rather than from wholesale firing of employees and profitability …

as the impact of these activities on firm-level productivity. The evidence gathered suggests that countries in the South …-owned firms as the most innovative of the region. The evidence also suggests a positive impact of innovation on productivity …

productivity dynamics using firm-level administrative data for South Africa. It is the first paper to benchmark employment and … productivity dynamics against various comparator countries for which similar analysis has been undertaken. The paper finds that … and exit is negligible. The static and dynamic productivity decompositions raise a concern that although productive …

revenue per employee, value added per employee, total factor productivity, and employment growth. Improving the management … worker by 30 percent, and total factor productivity by 13.5 percent. What drives better management capabilities? Russian …

indicators such as employment, turnover, and labour productivity growth. We exploit a unique dataset of 773 Italian service firms … employment, turnover, and labour productivity from the System of the Enterprise Account (SEA). We specify a Gibrat-like empirical … and turnover and a consequent not significant effect on labour productivity growth. The effect on employment is partly in …

The paper addresses the relevancy of networking activities and R&D as main drivers of productivity performance and … on productivity drivers and on complementarity between R&D and networking strategies, with respect to firm productivity … and process/product output innovation. R&D is a main driver of innovation and productivity, even without networking. This …