financial variables of Lithuanian firms. We focus in particular on the issues related to productivity, firm birth and death and … literature: trade participation and firm productivity are strongly positively linked, the 2008 recession has had a cleansing …

age and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany using newly available, unique data. We find concave age-productivity profiles and a negative … paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand with a lower …

This paper assesses the productivity growth contributed by the dynamics of exporting firms using firm-level production … proposed by Melitz and Polanec (Dynamic Olley-Pakes Productivity Decomposition with Entry and Exit, 2015), which allows them to … decompose the change in aggregate productivity into contributions of surviving firms, entering firms and exiting firms. The …

Explaining changes in productivity involves explaining changes in output and input quantities. Several economic models … in productivity are then explained in two steps. First, a stochastic production frontier model is used to decompose a … proper productivity index into measures of technical progress, environmental change, technical efficiency change, scale …

firms that have low or sometimes negative productivity, and provides an analysis of the impact of these firms on economic … productivity, employment growth, and the investment-to-capital ratio in the economy in a robust manner. The sales of zombie firms …