distributions during the process of transition. These facts are based on the data for all Slovenian manufacturing firms active …This paper compiles a set of stylized facts on the evolution of Firm size and labor and total factor productivity … between 1994 and 2003. Stylized picture of transition can be summarized as follows. Initially, we can distinguish between two …

&D investments, and (2) the dominant service content of production in the modern manufacturing firm. It pictures the firm as a …

&D investments, and (2) the dominant service content of production in the modern manufacturing firm. It pictures the firm as a …

Research Summary: Firm size has long been recognized as a source of competitive advantage. However, the disruptions … arising from the knowledge-based global economy are decoupling the link between firm size and profitability. We demonstrate in … disconnect in the relationships between firm size, growth, and financial performance across multiple industries with a long …

business size in an industry fosters growth in terms of total factor productivity (TFP). The results suggest that the overall … effects of firm size on TFP growth are negative. …

contributors to employment in the manufacturing sector. And two, how their contributions have evolved over time, across states … informal/unincorporated manufacturing sector in India for the period between 2000-01 and 2015-16, we find that the enterprise … consequence of the fact that there are some MSMEs which are growing and moving up the size distribution. This suggests that for …

This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this … relationship on a new set of data and we are able to show that once accounted for productivity differences among firms, size still …

, by decomposing changes in the level and share of manufacturing employment. The results indicate that in most countries … the decline in manufacturing employment is associated mainly with rising labour productivity in manufacturing …