This paper analyses the productivity performance of the Indian manufacturing sector using unit level data, which is … organized and unorganized segments of the manufacturing sector. Both partial and total factor productivity (TFP) measures have … been employed to trace the productivity performance of formal and informal manufacturing sector. TFP is estimated using …

This paper discusses the link between R&D and productivity across the European industrial and service sectors. The …. First, the R&D stock has a significant positive impact on labour productivity; this general result is largely consistent … (subsidies, fiscal incentives, etc.) in support of private R&D. However, R&D investment is not the sole source of productivity …

The aim of this study is to investigate the relationship between a firm's R&D activities and its productivity using a …'s productivity, with an overall elasticity of about 0.125; this general result is largely consistent with previous literature in … impact on productivity of their R&D investments, at least as regards top European R&D investors. …

Does FDI affect innovation, productivity growth, and knowledge sourcing activities of domestic firms? This study … effect of FDI entry on local incumbents’ TFP and labour productivity growth in the short term.. However, there are positive … spillovers on process innovation. These effects do not depend on the local firms’ distance to the productivity frontier. The …

The present study intends to investigate the labour employment and productivity problems in Romania’s agricultural …

reallocation through an investigation of the productivity-profitability-growth relations at the firm level. Exploiting large panels … profitability differentials, whereas the relationships of corporate growth with either productivity or profitability appear much …

This paper analyses how international outsourcing affects plant productivity, with the major contribution lying in the …

The impact of international trade on firm productivity is tested by accounting for firms' import as well as export … Difference in Differences, are used to calculate productivity improvements from entering into international trade. These …

We construct an economy with heterogeneous entrepreneurs in productivity, wealth and also size, with contracting … originating from a hidden action problem. This economy generates dual margins with high productivity firms owned by poor … entrepreneurs being incentive constrained and low productivity firms owned by richer entrepreneurs being participation constrained …