competitiveness (i.e. productivity, wages and profits) while controlling for key econometric issues such as time-invariant unobserved … competitiveness vary across sectors: while temporary employment is found to enhance productivity and profits in (labour …

This study analyses empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

Although market concentration is one of the main impediments to productivity growth globally, data constraints have … the effects of local industry concentration on productivity. The main results show that a decline by 10 points in the … factor productivity of revenue. Local industry concentration also has heterogeneous effects on productivity across industries …

This paper is the first to estimate the impact of a direct measure of firm-level upstreamness on productivity, wage … costs and profits (i.e. productivity-wage gaps). To do so, we merged detailed Belgian linked panel data, covering all years … that if upstreamness increases by one step (that is, by approximately, one standard deviation), productivity rises on …

This study analyzes empirically the effects of import competition on firm productivity (TFPQ) using administrative firm … positive incentives for firms to invest in productivity improvement, whereas import competition from middle- and low …. Costly investment in productivity appears feasible reaction to such type of competition and we find no evidence for …