The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … countries using firm-level data. The paper explores the empirical regularities of firm productivity distribution across … countries. In particular, we assess the degree of persistence of firm relative productivity and consider its effect on aggregate …

micro panel data drawn from administrative records; it fully exploits the longitudinal dimension of the underlying datasets …

Euro area (Germany, France, Italy and Spain), the UK and the USA. The result are very different for the countries …