, process and organizational innovation), which ultimately feeds into a productivity equation. We find that ICT investment and … product innovation in manufacturing. The strongest productivity effects are derived from organizational innovation. We find …

of inefficient SMEs—might improve total factor productivity growth rates. The traditional business model of being …

subjects that are less productivity-enhancing. …

plant’s placement within the productivity distribution. Appreciations of the local currency expose domestic plants to more … plants are forced from the market, which truncates the lower end of the productivity distribution. For surviving plants …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine …

We consider a matching model where firms face a trade-off between the productivity and the expected duration of jobs … productivity as well as the destruction rate are too high. Financing the unemployment costs by lay-off taxes lead the firms to …

productivity growth. The analysis shows that exporters were more productive than domestic-oriented establishments, and were … distinctly more competitive. The empirical evidence also shows that establishment turnover is important in boosting productivity … growth. In particular, we find that turnover of exporters made a larger contribution to aggregate productivity growth …

line was intensively exploited to yield productivity improvements, and that it was not so rigidly used as previously …

Productivity is high in cities partly because the urban environment acts as a self-selection mechanism. If workers have … ability workers. As a consequence productivity in these cities is high for workers of all ability types. …