In this paper we analyse the employment growth of 1389 Tunisian?s manufacturing small firms from 2006 to 2009. We propose an extension of the GIBRAT?s model in order to account explicitly inter-firm interactions. The aim is to show that firm?s growth is influenced not only by its own...

</titre> The aim of this paper is to study the impacts of the local industrial structure (specialization, diversity, competitiveness and the firm?s size), of the wages and of the foreign direct investments on the productive performance of manufacturing plants in terms of added value using a panel data...