model, we find that labor markets which provide cost advantages explain substantial differences in firm productivity …Optimal production decisions depend on local market characteristics. This paper develops a model to explain firm labor … demand and firm density across regions. Firms vary in their technology to combine imperfectly substitutable worker types, and …

larger firms, the results show that the productivity of IT depends positively on decentralization. The findings suggest that … large firms or also for smaller firms. Empirical evidence, which suggests complementarity between IT and decentralization …, is mainly based on large firms. Using data from a sample of 3292 SMEs and of 598 larger firms from the manufacturing and …

This paper examines input and productivity dynamics of manufacturing firms in the period leading to and following … export market entry. We examine 3 possible explanations for the observed productivity gap between exporting and non …-exporting firms: self-selection of high-performing firms into exporting; post-entry learning effects; and joint export …

This paper studies the process of plant exit and productivity growth in Japan during the ‘lost decade’. A productivity … decomposition shows the low rate of productivity growth at the aggregate level to be due to slow within plant productivity growth … other country contexts except we find no effect from import competition. Our results suggest that the low productivity …

I study the internal organization of firms using occupation data on workers in Swedish manufacturing firms. Firms with … more layers are larger in size, in value added, and they pay higher wages. Firms are hierarchal in that lower layers have …

of Chilean firms with regard to mastering new technologies. These slow and frequently uncertain gains in productivity … process innovation on productivity in the Chilean manufacturing industry during the past decade. In general, the evidence … suggests there is not a contemporaneous effect of product innovation on productivity, but there is a positive effect of process …

-off between employment growth and productivity as it appears that the sectors (services) and firms (the biggest) that create the …Using a micro database of Tunisian firms, the paper investigates the dynamics of productivity growth, employment and … most jobs are not those characterized by the highest productivity growth. Moreover, we find evidence of a week contribution …

productivity indicate low productivity for entrant firms. …Entrant firms are constrained to set lower price–cost markups than incumbents due to idiosyncratic demand shocks faced … in the startup phase. Productivity indices suffer from micro-level markup variation and underestimate entrants …

I study the internal organization of firms using Swedish occupation data. The empirical patterns match the theoretical …