manufacturing industries of France, Germany, UK and USA. We first disentangle the contribution to industry-level productivity growth … of within-firm productivity changes and between-firms reallocation of shares. The evidence corroborates that within … extent firm growth rates are shaped by relative productivity levels in deviation from industry average and by the over time …

theories of competition, to show the process by which trust-promoting, societal-level moral codes promote productivity and …

were 0.694, 0.0261 and 0.0000, respectively. There was no significant difference in the productivity between Fadama and non … Fadama (soko) farmers, while there was a significant difference between the productivity of Fadama and non Fadama (watermelon …

Using a unique German firm-level data set, we provide empirical evidence for a productivity sorting along two …

This paper uses individual data on employment and wages to shed light on the UK's productivity puzzle. It finds that … workforce composition cannot explain the reduction in wages and hence productivity that we observe; instead, real wages have … past. Another is lower trade union membership. Alternatively, it might be driven by a fall in productivity as a result of a …