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 …

This paper studies how different unionisation structures affect firm productivity, firm performance, and consumer … tougher selection among hetero- geneous producers and thus increases average productivity, firm-level bargaining allows less … model to a two-country setup, I furthermore show that the positive effect of centralised bargaining on average productivity …

We study the relation between the off-shoring of intermediates and services and productivity growth in the Italian … off-shoring") is beneficial for productivity growth, while the off-shoring of services is not. We also find that the way … productivity growth is there with our direct measures based on input-output data but disappears when either a broad measure or the …

inputs off-shoring. Third, in terms of the productivity dynamics over the period 1998-2003, exporters' performance in Italy …

database of comparable productivity indicators built by members of the Competitiveness Research Network (CompNet) using a newly ….g. productivity and size. The database comprises so far 11 countries, with information for 58 sectors over the period 1995-2011. The … preliminary results. Among them, it shows that there is large heterogeneity in terms of firm productivity or size within narrowly …

values of the standard Solow productivity residual. The equivalence holds if the representative household maximizes utility … while taking prices parametrically. This result justifies total factor productivity (TFP) as the right summary measure of … Britain, Italy, and Spain), using industry]level (EU]KLEMS) and firm]level (Amadeus) data. After adding further assumptions …

This paper examines the relationship between firms' productivity improvement and the volume of exports, and shows that …) and multimarket linkages (i.e., horizontally). We find that an improvement of the manufacturing productivity affects the … look surprising. This result can explain for the empirical productivity puzzle found in Ghemawat et al. (2010). Related to …