minimum wage hike not only shrinks young and low-productivity firms but also lowers incentives to innovate, resulting in lower …

, I develop a heterogeneous-firms model that endogenizes declines in aggregate productivity through reallocation towards …-cycle of 2003-2012, the calibrated model generates about 50% of the observed productivity decline. …

allocation. The model provides a cautionary counterpoint to one of the most popular arguments against the regulation of pay, i …

In this paper we provide firm-level evidence on the role of resource misallocation for total factor productivity … capital/labor productivity build up more capital/labor and that financial constraints play a significant role, especially in …

Following Hsieh and Klenow (2009), this paper studies productivity dispersions in Colombian industrial establishments … manufacturing Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of approximately 3-8 percent and TPF is positively correlated with exporting status … in 1991 is associated with an increase in plant productivity levels for firms that export goods. The 1990 reform that …

labor contract modalities on firm productivity within the industrial sector through a structural model. We find that … temporary workers contribute to firms’ labor productivity to a lower extent than permanent workers, while also having …

increase on firms' average wages, number of employees, profitability and productivity in the case of North Macedonia. The … by increase in productivity and, in some sectors, with decline in employment. …

potentially green industries outperform the others in terms of employment, average wages, value added and productivity, net of … implies an increase in employment and value added. In contrast, average wages and labour productivity remain unchanged. These …