constraints are particularly acute. The model shows that productivity determines export status of the firm as long as it is not …Under financial constraints, exporting may have less to do with productivity and more to do with financial resources …. The established relationship between exporting and productivity would differ when examined through the lens of the working …

economy and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium … compared to male-run firm exporters. …

productivity (TFP) using German establishment and employment level data. Contrasting different strategies to estimate TFP from … effects from true productivity leads to underestimated agglomeration economies. Under the preferred TFP measure, labor market … R&D funding, positively affect plant productivity. Except for job changes the result is even robust when the spatial …

This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …

examines the implications for firm productivity of adverse shocks to bank lending in Italy, using a novel identification scheme …-to-labor ratio, and productivity. The transmission from changes in credit supply to firm productivity relates to labor market …The Italian economy has been struggling with low productivity growth and bank balance sheet strains. This paper …

competitiveness in Europe. We differ from standard TFP studies at the firm level as we simultaneously allow for inefficiency, noise … and do not impose a functional form on the input-output relation. Using AMADEUS firm-level data covering 10 manufacturing …

growth, and the rest of firms whose productivity stagnates. The empirical analysis – based on firm-level data for the period …Slow productivity growth in advanced economies holds back income gains and therefore improvements in well …-being. Sluggish productivity gains in aggregate hide a growing gap between firms at the frontier, which display sustained productivity …

Organisation capital is one of the key intangible assets of firms, driving innovation and firm performance. Measuring … trust, which often do not coincide with any financial expenditure. Quantifying such efforts at the firm level has largely … databases, firm-specific human capital, brand equity), but excluding organisation capital. The residuum of the estimation is …

reallocation depends on (a) the dispersion of idiosyncratic productivity shocks faced by businesses and (b) the marginal … marginal responsiveness of employment growth to business-level productivity has weakened. The responsiveness in the post-2000 … in the 1990s. Counterfactuals show that weakening productivity responsiveness since 2000 accounts for a significant drag …