mortality, and to show how the productive chains can turn into a strategy of growth into termsof productivity for them …

productivity (training programmes) or bring productivity in line with pay (demotion). Personnel policies tend to ‘spare’ older …

The relationship between infrastructures and productivity has been the subject of an ongoing debate during the last two … that there are sufficient indications that public infrastructure investment contributes significantly to productivity … the key to rapid productivity growth in advanced countries where transportation and communications needs are already …

matching procedures to control the problems from self-selection into the export market. We use plant level panel data on Korean …; total factor productivity differentials between exporters and their domestic counterparts arises and widens during several … years after export market entry. We also find that the effect is more pronounced for firms that have higher skill …

Recent Melitz-type (2003) intra-industry heterogonous trade models argue that a firmfs productivity has significant … effects on the firmfs exports. This paper examines how a firmfs credit constraints as well as its productivity affect its … export decisions. We imbed the firmfs credit constraints into a Melitz-type general-equilibrium model by endogenizing the …

increase productivity in energy sector. Doubts exist about whether these are the most effective tools for improving … productivity since changes in productivity are usually related to changes in technological progress. We use a vector autoregressive … model to study this problem. Our purpose is to identify the shocks which induce movements in productivity, and to measure …

face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the average productivity of survivors increases. These pro …

, measured by labour productivity. To this end, the stochastic frontier technique is applied, basing the analysis on a unique … results of this study suggest that – if the aim is to leverage companies' productivity – emphasis should be put on supporting …-tech sector turns out to have a minor effect. Instead, encouraging investment in fixed assets appears vital for the productivity …