the ceteris paribus lower level of productivity in firms with a higher share of female employees does not go hand in hand … and gender) and its performance (productivity and profitability) for a large representative sample of enterprises from … manufacturing industries in Germany. We use unique newly available data that for the first time combine information from the …

This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries … (Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental … fragmentation and productivity, and represents the first empirical analysis of how metropolitan governance structures affect this …

, a flexible log-logistic decay function framework and quantile regression techniques. We find that firms' growth …

. Using data from Chinese manufacturing firms in the 1998-2005 period, we first recover the markup ratio for each firm … impact of agglomeration on firm markup. Our difference-in-differences (DID) estimation shows that agglomeration has a … types of firms …

higher labour productivity levels and higher investments in R&D activities than non-innovative firms. Results partially …) externalities seem to positively (negatively) affect (high-tech) firms' probability of introducing technological innovations … technological innovation - namely, product and process innovations - focusing on Italian manufacturing small and medium sized firms …