constraints are particularly acute. The model shows that productivity determines export status of the firm as long as it is not …Under financial constraints, exporting may have less to do with productivity and more to do with financial resources …. The established relationship between exporting and productivity would differ when examined through the lens of the working …

productivity, the skill mix of the workforce and wages using micro data for the U.S. and Germany. We find support to the idea that … is evidenced in a greater dispersion in productivity and related key business choices. We also find that the mean impact … of adopting new technology on productivity and wages is greater the in U.S. than in Germany. …

enterprise resource planning and online procurement is positively correlated with labour productivity growth. Furthermore, we … between labour productivity growth and the percentage of enterprises with new or significantly changed organisational …

economy and society. With a new and comprehensive data set on manufacturing plants, I investigate the exporter productivity … premium of female-run firms in Germany. The results show that female-run firms gain a higher exporter-productivity premium … compared to male-run firm exporters. …

productivity (TFP) using German establishment and employment level data. Contrasting different strategies to estimate TFP from … effects from true productivity leads to underestimated agglomeration economies. Under the preferred TFP measure, labor market … R&D funding, positively affect plant productivity. Except for job changes the result is even robust when the spatial …

This paper establishes a causal link between the emigration of skilled workers and firm performance in source countries …. Using firm-level panel data from ten Eastern European countries, we show that the emigration of skilled workers lowers firm … total factor productivity. We exploit time, country, and industry differences in the opening of EU labor markets from 2004 …

examines the implications for firm productivity of adverse shocks to bank lending in Italy, using a novel identification scheme …-to-labor ratio, and productivity. The transmission from changes in credit supply to firm productivity relates to labor market …The Italian economy has been struggling with low productivity growth and bank balance sheet strains. This paper …