explain most of the well-known differences in aggregate growth rates of labour productivity and employment across these … productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces … of long-run growth may help to better explain differences in employment and productivity growth, in particular if …

We study the productivity level distributions of manufacturing firms in France and Germany, and how these distributions … evolved across the Great Recession. We show the presence of a systematic productivity advantage of German firms over French … the productivity distribution. We also highlight the role of sectoral growth, firm size and export intensity in explaining …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …