The extent of beta- and sigma-convergence of average labor productivity across manufacturing industries in 18 OECD …

Real value-added per employee in U.S. manufacturing fell between 2010 and 2016. Manufacturing accounted for over half … aggregate value-added. While productivity growth fell in almost all three-digit manufacturing industries, almost 40% of the fall … in aggregate manufacturing productivity growth reflected a slower decline of the deflator for computers and electronic …

We analyze output growth risk with respect to financial conditions across U.S. manufacturing industries. Using a multi …

In this paper, we examine how the effect of movements in the real exchange rate on manufacturing plants depends on the …, appreciations can lead to a reduction in plant size, which, in the presence of scale economies, can lower productivity. We examine … productivity. Using plant-level data that covers the entire Canadian manufacturing sector from 1984 to 1997, we find that many …

This paper investigates the evolution of aggregate productivity and markups among French manufacturing firms between …

firm level panel data from Ethiopian manufacturing during the period 1996-2007, it shows that about 30% of firms adjust … paper also shows that the likelihood of adding a product tends to decline with firm size and increases dramatically with the …

of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity … manufacturing sector, (ii) when we use a measure of import intensity, we find that a 100% increase in the share of imported inputs … is that the decision to import foreign intermediates improves productivity in manufacturing firms. This matters from a …

Republic of Korea manufacturing sector from 1982 to 2007. They find improvement in the aggregate allocative efficiency during …