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 …

explain most of the well-known differences in aggregate growth rates of labour productivity and employment across these … productivity and capital, the paper analyses service sector growth in detail. It argues that a careful consideration of the forces … of long-run growth may help to better explain differences in employment and productivity growth, in particular if …

relative productivity growth are the two most important factors influencing changes in relative Canada/US prices. Competitive … pressures emanating from trade are important determinants of the extent to which relative productivity differences are passed …

US productivity leadership or could be due to the ease in which US firms operate in their home surroundings. The evidence … would therefore be more compelling if US firms were leaders outside the US. We study the productivity of plants owned by US …