with high shares of employment in incumbent exporters to a specific country will have a probability of entering a new … relationship involving that country that is 116 percent higher than those in regions with low incumbent employment shares. These …

-term) survival and growth of new firms that determine the direct and indirect contribution of new businesses to regional employment … employment. The main findings indicate that the probability of exit is higher for very young and rather old businesses and also …

There is a substantial heterogeneity in productivity when comparing individual firms. However, even when heterogeneity …

innovation and productivity and firms tend to decline in sales and employment. …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 …

model at the region-sector level for the Netherlands, where regional economic development (employment growth) is explained …

This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be … plants in terms of employment change and to this use a comprehensive data set that covers the whole of Germany and contains …. On average and for larger plants, employment decline starts between 54 and 63 months before closure. …

Llull presents a cross-country analysis of the impact of immigration on productivity and employment. Push … share of immigrants in the population reduces GDP per capita by 2%, the employment rate by 0.89 percentage points, and … imply a semi-elasticity of native wages to immigration of −0.7 if the extensive margin of labour supply is ignored (the …

immediate phase following the shock, labor productivity and real wages stagnate as employment gains are initially … analyse the link between sectoral resource allocation, low productivity growth and stagnant real wages. My results suggest … raises growth of technology, labor productivity and real wages. I show, however, that a slowdown in productivity and …