This article analyzes the impact of institutional investors on firm productivity duringthe financial crisis 2008 … constrained indicating that foreign insti-tutional ownership prevents the known productivity slowdown during the financial …

transitions, and this allows for estimation of the degree of search frictions. The firm data are informative on labor productivity … difference between labor productivity and wages in a market depends on the degree of frictions and other determinants. We correct …

productivity, specialization and income concentration in agriculture are analyzed. The structural heterogeneity can be evidenced …This study addresses the structural heterogeneity and production of Brazilian agriculture. Economic indicators of labor … discussing the structural and productive issues that lead to heterogeneity in agriculture. We show a high specialization and …

Immigrants may complement native workers, increase productivity, allow specialization by skill in the firm and lower … costs. These effects could be beneficial for the firm and increase its productivity and profits. However not all firms use … supply of immigrants on firms' immigrant employment and firm's productivity. Using micro-level data on French firms, we show …

framework of heterogeneous firms, assuming that foreign workers allow for productivity gains and convey valuable information on …

productivity heterogeneity can be incorporated in the standard model of monopolistic competition at a low cost in terms of …This paper studies how productivity shifts at the level of the firm are transmitted to aggregate industry productivity … in a model of heterogeneous firms. We analyse both uniform productivity shifts, and catching up by reducing the …

this paper we analyse how observed heterogeneity in productivity is affected by endogenous producer behaviour, and to what …It is an established fact that firms, even within narrowly defined industries, differ with respect to productivity. In … extent shifts in firm specific productivity parameters will affect aggregate industry productivity. We find that endogenous …

reservation wages, shifting the labor force towards the more productive firms. The relation between productivity dispersion and UI … policy is mediated by the wage posting policies of firms that take both productivity and policy into account. Optimal UI … policy is shown to crucially depend on the properties of the firm productivity distribution, such as its variance and …

between 1992 and 2006. Theories emphasising firm-level heterogeneity show that industry-level productivity may not only …In this paper we investigate the relationship between productivity growth and firm dynamics using firm-level data … was the main factor behind industry-level productivity growth in Hungary in this period, but creative destruction also …