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 …

; occupations ; wages ; productivity …

The paper analyzes the link between human capital and firm-level productivity in five Asian countries. It draws on a … productivity. The productivity of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) is enhanced by a higher level of skills and education …

. Labor productivity rises 8% at targets over two years post buyout (again, relative to controls), with large gains for both … public-to-private and private-to-private buyouts. Target productivity gains are larger yet for deals executed amidst tight … sharply curtails productivity gains in public-to-private and divisional buy-outs. Average earnings per worker fall by 1.7% at …

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …

We study the impact of broadband availability on firms’ total factor productivity (TFP) using German firm-level data … between 2010 and 2015. We adopt a control function approach to causally identify and separately estimate productivity for 46 … firms’ productivity in manufacturing, it significantly increases TFP in most service sectors. Yet, the size of the effect is …

Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …

the drop in private economy productivity growth between 1990-2000 and 2010-2016, though it accounted for less than 20% of … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …

We study the impact of bank credit supply on firm output and productivity. By exploiting a matched firm-bank database … revenues) for a given level of inputs. Our estimates imply that a credit crunch will be followed by a productivity slowdown, as … account for about a quarter of the observed decline in Italy's total factor productivity growth. The results are robust to an …