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 …

productivity using a large dataset of firm-level data for Euro-area countries during the period 1995-2011. Our empirical strategy …-level production equation to assess the direct impact of access to finance to firm-level productivity. We estimate the impact of … financial constraints on a measure of labor productivity and we find significant and negative effects in the majority of sectors …

This article analyses the effects of the financial crisis and the Great Recession on productivity in Europe by studying … predictions derived from Schumpeterian ("creative destruction") endogenous growth models. Pre-crisis productivity is a predictor …

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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …