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 …

manufacturing industries of France, Germany, UK and USA. We first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth … of within-firm productivity changes and between-firms reallocation of shares. The evidence corroborates that within … extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels in deviation from industry average and by the over time …

In this article we propose a new methodology for computing the aggregate productivity of an industry, its variations … heterogeneity among firms is high. We propose instead a geometric approach where aggregate productivity can be measured directly on …

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 …

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …