Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …

The literature on within-firm organizational change and productivity suggests that firms can make more efficient use of … technologies and that joint adoption leads to higher productivity. Without having introduced complementary organizational … innovations, the adoption of CO2 reducing technologies is associated with lower productivity. -- Firm behavior ; technical change …

This paper investigates the time-path of efficiency and productivity change in the case of the Romanian cement industry … the Romanian cement industry before the revolution in 1989 is a slow rate of productivity progress, and a corresponding … catch up in the level of productive efficiency. -- Productivity change ; productive efficiency ; stochastic frontiers ; time …

; transition ; Hungary ; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine …This paper estimates the effect of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the … models imply that majority privatization raises MFP about 15% in Romania, 8% in Hungary, and 2% in Ukraine, while in Russia …

; Romania ; Russia ; Ukraine ; transition …We analyze the impact of privatization on multifactor productivity (MFP) using long panel data for nearly the universe … employing a wide variety of measurement approaches, we estimate that majority privatization raises MFP about 28% in Romania, 22 …

may then force managers to improve the productivity of the firm in order to ensure survival. While this hypothesis has … competition shocks. We find that import competition leads to productivity increases in family-managed firms that are initially … unproductive. Productivity improvements are driven by family management as opposed to family ownership or non-managing family …

This paper attempts to distinguish and estimate the direct and indirect effects of infrastructure on firm productivity … kinds of infrastructure - road, telecommunication servers, and cable - are found to directly promote firm productivity; (2 …) they also exert a positive indirect effect on firm productivity through the agglomeration channel; and (3) the empirical …

facilities in Europe jointly with their output, productivity, and other key economic outcomes. To disentangle the influence of … and productivity do not change suggesting that reductions in emissions follow proportional reductions in output rather … productivity and profits of other facilities and firms owned by the acquiring parent company after a change in ownership. …