This paper discusses the evolution of firms' productivity and structural heterogeneity (SH) in the Brazilian … large share of total firms is in the lowest productivity groups of the production structure, and there are very large … differences in labour productivity between groups and firms. The paper combines and makes compatible several databases on …

-country model of international trade and endogenous productivity growth. Knowledge spillovers link firm-level productivity in …

This paper is one of the first to estimate how the region in which an establishment is located affects its productivity …, wage cost and cost competitiveness (i.e. its productivity-wage gap). To do so, we use detailed linked employer … productivity and wages are significant but vanish almost totally, both in industry and services, when controlling for a wide range …