This paper, instrumented with six theorems, shows that differences between firms in labor productivity, capital …

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 …

productivity is derived. A semi-parametric approach is applied on a 3-digit level of industrial data over major states during 1998 …-2014 to regress Solow residual (the proxy for productivity) on trade share along with its interaction terms capturing market … productivity. It is argued that the joint effects of market size and competition arising out of trade cannot dominate the adverse …

The paper analyses the effects of the 1990 Brazilian trade liberalizaton on the total factor productivity, market share …/94 indicates very large total factor productivity gains in the period to 1994, which were accompanied by large falls in market …

This paper proposes a novel method to estimate productivity and quality at the firm-product level, together with … between observed data and unobserved productivity and quality. It has the advantage of allowing for heterogeneous unobserved … relying on productivity evolution. We apply this method to a set of Mexican manufacturing industries. We find that multi …

Empirical data suggest that new firms tend to grow faster than incumbent firms in terms of their productivity. A sticky … firms to align their real price with their idiosyncratic productivity growth. In contrast, the standard sticky-price model …

-level productivity in a two-country DSGE model with heterogeneous producers and an endogenous dynamic export participation decision …

on productivity, using a large panel of around 6200 firms. The findings of the theoretical literature on this topic are … consortia increases productivity. …