financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …

productivity or vice versa? Using firm-level administrative data for Spain, I find that productivity shocks are followed by … significant increases in size defined by employment. In contrast, size shocks are not followed by productivity gains at the firm …

productivity or vice versa? Using matching methods, I find that productivity shocks are followed by significant increases in size … defined by employment. In contrast, size shocks are not followed by productivity gains at the firm level. This finding casts … doubt on the conventional wisdom that aggregate productivity in Spain is driven by a firm size distribution biased towards …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage combining administrative firm datasets. We analyze … reallocation, and short- versus long-run effects. We document higher firm productivity even net of output price increases …. Productivity gains are persistent in manufacturing and service sectors. The minimum wage also increased manufacturing productivity …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

economies (and subsequently productivity) cannot be estimated independently of markups. We extend this basic framework to show … procedure will tend to overestimate exporting markups and underestimate their productivity. In addition, we provide an …-porter productivity …

We study the productivity effect of the German national minimum wage by applying administrative firm data. At the firm … level, we confirm positive effects on wages and negative employment effects and document higher productivity even net of … minimum wage increased aggregate productivity in manufacturing. We do not find that employment reallocation across firms …

a critical role in explaining regional disparities in productivity. In fact, we show that over 50% of the East …-West productivity gap is associated with a less efficient labor allocation in former East Germany. Yet, we also demonstrate that the … suggest that regional productivity differences could be substantially narrowed by a more efficient labor allocation among …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …