Italian enterprises between the 1970s and the 2010s, the work aims at contributing to the debate about the productivity growth … aims at understanding whether productivity gaps were mainly determined by differences among firms (within-effect) or by … productive sectors and a productivity slowdown affecting almost all industries. In the long run, the reallocation of resources …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …