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 …

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 …

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 …

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between …

firm level panel data from Ethiopian manufacturing during the period 1996-2007, it shows that about 30% of firms adjust … paper also shows that the likelihood of adding a product tends to decline with firm size and increases dramatically with the …

of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity … manufacturing sector, (ii) when we use a measure of import intensity, we find that a 100% increase in the share of imported inputs … is that the decision to import foreign intermediates improves productivity in manufacturing firms. This matters from a …