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 …

The study aims at describing productivity growth in the manufacturing sector for a selected panel of five European … growth and firm-specific factors such as size, age and capital intensity across countries. The paper uses annual account data … over the period 1993-2003 from Amadeus dataset (Bureau van Dijk) for a balanced panel of manufacturing firms. In line with …

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 …

This paper uses newly available firm-level tax data to evaluate the market structure in South African manufacturing … sectors in the period 2010-12. To describe the market structure we compute markups for South African manufacturing firms and … concentration indexes for 4-digit manufacturing sectors. We find both significant markups and significant concentration across most …

within the Western German manufacturing sector or not. The underlying assumption is that size of a firm has no influence on … Chesher (1979) is used to explore 'Gibrat's law' in order to examine the influence of firm size on growth. Moreover we test …

, size and distribution of industry are discussed in light of the laissez fair paradigm. The non-direct interventionist …

while the manufacturing sector contributed only 4 per cent to GDP in 2011. The economic transformation agenda, otherwise …

fifteen years. The focus of this literature lies in explaining cross-industry differences in concentration, and in the size …