This paper investigates the determinants of the between component of aggregate productivity growth, which gauges the … productivity-enhancing part of plant-level restructuring. Results obtained from a panel of twelve Finnish manufacturing industries … in the period from the mid-70s to the late 90s suggest that R&D contributes to aggregate productivity growth through …

symmetric Research Joint Ventures (RJVs) increase productivity to a greater extent than RJVs between asymmetric firms. The … effects of international co-operative R&D on short term productivity gains among European manufacturing firms and to clarify …

governance and market discipline on productivity growth. We find that firms under concentrated ownership tend to show … significantly higher productivity growth. Financial pressure from creditors influences productivity growth positively, particularly … for firms in financial distress. Regarding market discipline, productivity grows faster when competition on product …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

plant's placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …

hypotheses. First, that most of the recent increase in the dispersion of wages and productivity has occurred across … establishments and these changes are linked. Second, that the increased dispersion in wages and productivity across establishments is …-plant measures of wage and productivity dispersion have increased substantially over the last few decades; and (4) a significant …

presents the first comprehensive evidence on the relationship between exports and productivity for Germany, a leading actor on … literature to document that the positive productivity differential of exporters compared to non-exporters is statistically …. Results for West Germany support the hypothesis that the productivity differential between exporters and non-exporters is at …