This paper studies the impact of size on labor cost and productivity for Italian manufacturing firms. The distributions … of both labor cost and productivity display a wide support, even when disaggregated by sector of industrial activity …. Further, both labor cost and productivity, when considered alone, are growing with the size of the firm. We investigate this …

This paper estimates the contribution of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) to the Total Factor Productivity (TFP) of …

This article explores the dynamics of market selection by investigating of the relationships linking productivity … that productivity variations, rather than relative levels, are the dominant productivity-related determinant of firm growth …

identifying within-plant productivity differences across product lines. Orr's methodology allows the estimation of plant …-product level productivity, contingent upon a well-behaved pre-estimated demand system, which requires the use of carefully chosen …