technological change and productivity growth takes place in an economy. Quite normally, some 30-50% of an industry's productivity … growth is due to this particular mechanism. Disruptions to this mechanism would have considerable effects on productivity …

This study conducts an international comparison of productivity and profitability. First, the level and growth of … productivity are compared in OECD countries for the period from 1975 to 2009. According to this comparison, productivity growth has … productivity, prices and labour compensation. The results show that profitability in Finnish manu-facturing is competitive because …

This paper studies how firms contribute to the productivity growth of an industry over their lifecycle. We present a … decomposition method that allows us to condition the components of productivity growth on the age of production units. We find … effect is tightly related to the negative initial productivity effect of entry. We also find some evidence that productivity …