This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms’ monopolistic market power, and workers’ wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

This paper examines the interaction between productivity growth, firms' monopolistic market power, and workers' wage … study the correlation of the estimated parameters and markups with the firm-level productivity growth. Second, the paper …

relationship between trade status, firm size and firm-level productivity in the Netherlands, thereby focusing particularly on small … and medium sized enterprizes (SMEs). The empirical evidence can be summarized in four stylized facts. The productivity … ranking by trade status of Dutch manufacturing firms in increasing order of productivity is: non-traders, importers, exporters …

Netherlands, from firm-specific total factor productivity (TFP) measures. TFP measures are estimated by a semi …We compute aggregate productivity of three categories of regions, classified by level of urbanization in the … over the period 1997-2006. We analyse the productivity differentials across urbanization categories by decomposing them …

participation and productivity at the firm and establishment-level. We test whether recent theories of international trade with … we control for the firm's distance to the international productivity frontier …

This paper revisits the relationship between competition and total factor productivity by analyzing how the type and … the degree of product and labor market imperfections affect different moments of total factor productivity distributions … 2003-2011 in Belgium and 9,653 firms over the period 1999-2008 in the Netherlands to first classify 30 comparable …

We examine the impact of internal and external R&D on labor productivity in a 6-year panel of 304 innovating firms. We …

-exporting services firms, by several productivity measures. In a dynamic context, the prediction that exporters self select into export … markets on the basis of the relative productivity performance is confirmed by the empirical evidence. There is no support for … the alterna- tive 'learning-by- exporting' explanation for the productivity performance of services firms, not even when …

whether there are some productivity-enhancing externalities gained from this growing diversity within firms. In recent years … migration research has demonstrated positive economic impacts of cultural diversity on productivity and innovation at the … administrative data obtained from Statistics Netherlands. Excluding firms in the hospitality industry and other industries that …

The fraction of R&D active firms decreased in Switzerland but increased in the Netherlands from 2000-2016. This paper … examines reasons for this divergence and its impact on productivity growth. Our micro-data reveal R&D concentration among high-productivity … but not in the Netherlands, explaining the diverging R&D trends. Yet, counterfactual analyses show that policies should …