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 …

by the adjustment of the extensive margin which is more than four times the net contribution of firm entry and exit. The … incidence of large investment outlays. While the level of productivity does not seem to increase the probability of adding a … product, a net increase in the number of products is strongly associated with subsequent growth in sales, productivity and …

1992): (H1) Firms that exit in year t were in t-1 less productive than firms that continue to produce in t. (H2) Firms that … enter in year t are less productive than incumbent firms in year t. (H3) Surviving firms from an entry cohort were more …

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 …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …

substantial productivity growth, but some evidence of trade discipline on the price-cost margins. A markup premium is however …