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 …

's productivity. We compare outsourcing in domestic with foreign-owned establishments. Our empirical results suggest that high wages …-owned firms have higher levels of outsourcing than domestic establishments. In the productivity analysis we find that an … establishment's outsourcing intensity is positively related to its labour productivity and total factor productivity growth and that …

sticky-price models are inconsistent with this finding. I develop a menu-cost model with idiosyncratic productivity shocks …

In many larger advanced economies labour productivity growth slowed sharply and remained subdued for years after the … credit crisis of 2007/08. Nowhere was this more obvious than in the United Kingdom. We examine the dynamics of productivity … factor productivity within firms, pointing to the importance of a common factor in explaining productivity weakness. In …