Does the matching between workers and jobs help explain productivity differentials across firms? To address this …' careers. At firm level, it features a robust positive correlation with firm productivity, and with managerial turnover leading …

International trade has been stated as one of the most important mean of improving firms' productivity, being the … contribute to local firm's productivity performance by incorporating better inputs in their production processes. This paper … of manufacturing formal firms in Ecuador, and, the causal relationship between the import decision and firm productivity …

functions together with detailed product-level information on prices and quantities to estimate physical productivity, markups … based on commonly used measures of revenue productivity. In contrast, we measure sizable efficiency gains using measures … that are not affected by pricing heterogeneity, such as marginal costs and physical productivity. Exploiting exogenous …

substantial productivity growth, but some evidence of trade discipline on the price-cost margins. A markup premium is however …

of positive effects emerge. With respect to takeovers of German companies by foreign investors, the productivity and … international, we find positive productivity and sales effects for relatively small companies investing abroad, and this …

We examine the link between new employees in leading positions and subsequent productivity in small- and medium … positive and statistically significant impact on the productivity of the hiring SME. Interestingly, our results suggest that … professionals with experience from international firms and enterprise groups contribute the most to total factor productivity …

We examine heterogeneous productivity effects of hiring top workers on small and medium-sized enterprises, using … longitudinal employer-employee data. We find the productivity effect to be stronger for firms with higher absorptive capacity in …

This paper investigates how firm entry into a price comparison website marketplace affects firm productivity, profits … participation in these marketplaces also leads to increased productivity, i.e., output increases when holding constant the level of … the level of inputs constant. Also, investigation of who gains from the increased productivity shows that, for entering …