, size and distribution of industry are discussed in light of the laissez fair paradigm. The non-direct interventionist …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this … relationship on a new set of data and we are able to show that once accounted for productivity differences among firms, size still …

while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …

This paper examines labour productivity convergence in manufacturing of the planned and market economies in the setting …

The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …

We analyze output growth risk with respect to financial conditions across U.S. manufacturing industries. Using a multi …

In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine … productivity. Using plant-level data that covers the entire Canadian manufacturing sector from 1984 to 1997, we find that many …

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise … consequence of the fact that there are some MSMEs which are growing and moving up the size distribution. This suggests that for …