Research Summary: Firm size has long been recognized as a source of competitive advantage. However, the disruptions … arising from the knowledge-based global economy are decoupling the link between firm size and profitability. We demonstrate in … disconnect in the relationships between firm size, growth, and financial performance across multiple industries with a long …

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise … consequence of the fact that there are some MSMEs which are growing and moving up the size distribution. This suggests that for …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this … relationship on a new set of data and we are able to show that once accounted for productivity differences among firms, size still …

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …

Real value-added per employee in U.S. manufacturing fell between 2010 and 2016. Manufacturing accounted for over half … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …

We analyze output growth risk with respect to financial conditions across U.S. manufacturing industries. Using a multi …

In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine … productivity. Using plant-level data that covers the entire Canadian manufacturing sector from 1984 to 1997, we find that many …