longitudinal earnings records for their employees to study the relationship between productivity, management, worker ability, and … management practices on productivity in German manufacturing. …Recent research suggests that much of the cross-firm variation in measured productivity is due to differences in use of …

There is a lack of comprehensive information on the quality of management in Finland as compared to other countries … this gap. As part of the project, an extensive survey concerning management practices has been implemented for Finnish … manufacturing establishments. Its design meticulously follows the Management and Organizational Practices Survey (MOPS), a survey …

. Our findings suggest that the productivity gains from investments in the three innovative activities are related to firm …

rapidly raising productivity while making workers redundant. This paper explores the evidence for this view among the IT …-using U.S. manufacturing industries. There is some limited support for more rapid productivity growth in IT … expectations, is that output contracts in IT-intensive industries relative to the rest of manufacturing. Productivity increases …

This paper investigates the productivity effects of inward and outward foreign direct investment using industry and … country. Our results show that there are, on average, productivity benefits from inward FDI, although we can identify a number … of countries which, on aggregate, do not appear to benefit in terms of productivity. On the other hand, a country's stock …

studies conducted so far focus alone on the productivity effects of offshoring at the firm level. Here I carry out the … analysis of both the employment and productivity effects at the aggregate level of the industry, covering the years 1980 …. On the other hand, positive effects on the growth rate of productivity are found as a result of both types of offshoring …

investigate the relation between firms' trading activities (importing, exporting or both) and productivity. We find important self … average productivity premia of exporters. …

In this paper we explore variables that may have an impact on multifactor productivity (MFP) in the long-run using the …

relationship between the margins of trade and firm productivity, both across firms and within firms over time. In addition, we … and the value of CAT exports responds differently to variation in firm productivity and trade costs than does the export …

This paper determines the relative importance of technical efficiency and reallocation for aggregate productivity … of productivity differences across firms. More precisely, we have information on human capital such as the level of … productivity growth by applying the decomposition introduced by Petrin and Levinsohn (2012). The outcome of this exercise will not …