this model we identify a formal relationship between international trade, productivity, and wages. We then examine the … trivariate relationship between trade, growth in total factor productivity (TFP), and the skill premium in a vector …

. Globalization is shown to induce heterogeneous responses across firms in terms of scope and productivity, some of which are …

Belgium. Both imports and exports appear to be highly concentrated among few firms and seem to have become more so over time …. The same is true if we consider the number of products traded. With regard to productivity differentials, firms that both …-selection in both export and import markets. Also, the productivity advantage of exporters reported in the literature may be …

separately. The results showed a diametrically opposing impact of productivity and profitability on the takeover likelihood. This …

productivity performance. The empirical distributions and the associated persistence over time are explored through a set of … external credit. We also offer an initial understanding about how profitability and productivity relate with a third dimension …

and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … level surveys performed by the Statistical Offices. Our micro-econometric analysis confirms previous findings of concave age-productivity … profiles, which are consistent with human capital theory, and adds a new finding of a rather negative effect of age on firms …

The report analyses the impacts of globalization on competitiveness of national economies, industries and firms. The …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … contributions to welfare for a set of European OECD countries (Belgium, France, Great Britain, Italy, Spain), using industry …

interactions that increase productivity), possibly reinforced by localised natural advantage. To distinguish between them, we nest … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the … cannot explain spatial productivity differences. This result holds across sectors, city size thresholds, establishment …