providing evidence on the age-productivity and age-earnings profiles for a sample of plants in three manufacturing industries … managerial changes does make a difference for plant productivity, less so for wages. In electronics, the Finnish industry … undergoing a major technological and managerial shock in the 1990s, the response of productivity to age-related variables is …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …

How do new firms contribute to industry productivity growth at the time of entry and then subsequently over their … have a negative effect on industry productivity growth initially, but a prolonged process of market selection and exit … during the early stages of the firms’ lifecycle mitigates this negative effect subsequently. The positive productivity …

To examine the productivity, employment and wage effects of ICT, we apply novel occupationbased measures of … changes. Our results support the view that organisational change complements ICT investments in a productivity …-enhancing manner. In particular, the ICT-driven productivity gains are associated with the destruction of routine and noninteractive …

The marked acceleration of Finnish productivity growth since the mid-1980s is attributable to intensifying creative … half of the 1990s, but productivity enhancing restructuring has been more widespread. Developments in Finland are …