' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … with firm-level employment growth. Conversely, relative productivity levels, as such a general proxy for the broad …

' heterogeneous productivity gains and sales dynamics, and innovation activities ultimately shape the patterns of employment dynamics …. Using firm's productivity growth as a proxy for process innovation, our results show that the latter correlates negatively … with firm-level employment growth. Conversely, relative productivity levels, as such a general proxy for the broad …

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 …, profitability, investment and growth, based on China's manufacturing firm-level dataset over the period 1998 - 2007. First, we find … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …