debates amongst academic researchers and policy makers. Recently, the attention is increasingly moving towards the exporting-productivity … paper is aimed at investigating empirically the link between exporting and firm productivity in Italy within the context of …; and secondly, the average firm productivity is higher as the industry export propensity towards more integrated European …

'firm heterogeneity'. This paper investigates empirically the exporting-productivity linkage in the Italian manufacturing … that exporters are more productive than non-exporters and this productivity gap could be due to the self …

&D spillover on firms’ productivity in Catalonia. The paper deals simultaneously with the performance of manufacturing and service … productivity gains. We find that intra-industry R&D spillovers have an important effect on the productivity level of manufacturing …

investigate the relationship between exports and productivity. Our overall results are in line with the big picture that is by now … controlled for, and these exporter productivity premia tend to increase with the share of exports in total sales; there is strong … government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per se does not appear to be an explanation for …

This study analyzes the difference between foreign and domestic ownership of firms with respect to productivity. Recent … difference-in-difference estimations show that there is a positive effect of foreign acquisition on productivity. Foreign … acquisitions increase the productivity in the acquired Swedish firms by between 3 and 11% depending on the estimator chosen …

system increased not only the productivity of the industry but also the quality of its products. Explorative studies have … productivity and quality. By eliminating waste on site, controlling the movement of inventory coming into the site and within the …

addition to a number of improvement ideas and enhanced communication, the applied PPM resulted in 32% higher total productivity …

productivity and skill production in this country. This paper reviews the issues and research gaps in the human resource dimension … of the productivity puzzle. After reviewing the main issues in this area, the paper proceeded with augmenting the list of …